This text covers the core curriculum for undergraduate teaching of clinical paediatrics. The second edition incorporates colour photographs, diagrams, illustrated case histories and clinical hints and tips. Bullet-point lists are used to facilitate reading and learning, and the content is pared down to cover what students really need to know and no more. This edition has a new chapter on The Child in Society covering general issues in child health in developed and developing countries. All the system-based chapters have been revised and coverage of ethics, evidence-based medicine and developmental paediatrics has been expanded. The contents have re-tuned throughout to reflect trend towards community paediatrics. With specialist paediatrics moving more and more into the community, paediatric practice has seen major changes.