About Children: An Authoritative Resource on the State of Childhood Today Hardcover - 2005 - 1st Edition

Arthur G. Cosby, PhD, is a professor of sociology and director and research fellow at the Social Science Research Center at Mississippi State University, as well as the founding director of the Mississippi Health Policy Research Center. He lives in Starkville, Mississippi. Robert E. Greenberg, MD, is professor emeritus of pediatrics at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. He has been the chair of pediatrics at both Charles Drew/Martin Luther King Medical Center and the University of New Mexico. He lives in Corrales, New Mexico. Linda Hill Southward, PhD., is a research scientist with the Social Science Research Center at Mississippi State University and the coordinator of the university's Family & Children Research Unit. She is also the university's liaison to the American Academy of Pediatrics' Center for Child Health Research and the former president of the Mississippi chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. She lives in Starkville, Mississippi. Michael Weitzman, MD, is the executive director of the American Academy of Pediatrics' Center for Child Health Research and the professor and associate chairman of pediatrics at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He is the former director of general pediatrics and pediatrician-in-chief at Rochester General Hospital. He lives in Rochester, New York.