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Family Structure and Development

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John Warren was a busy general practitioner when he took the time to write the following letter to the father of a boy who had been burned in a household accident, while the father was away in Philadelphia:

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  1. Linda M. Garcia-Shelton
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  1. Department of Family and Community Medicine, Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University, 300 South Hawthorne Road, 27103, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

    Robert B. Taylor M.D. (Professor) (Professor)

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Garcia-Shelton, L.M., Brody, H. (1983). Family Structure and Development. In: Taylor, R.B. (eds) Family Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4002-8_3

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