title: [Pediatrics: the development of a clinical discipline].
abstract: "80 years Department of Pediatrics at the University of Giessen (1912-1992)": Occasion to remember the development of this discipline obtaining only late independent Professorships and Clinics at German Universities. The reasons therefore are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, Universität Giessen.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Benedum
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005858:Germany; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000266:history*