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This chapter endeavours to take a bird’s eye or historical view of the sort of prevention we are all wishing to plan or promote. In general, I think it is damage — damage to the inherited equipment of a child, and, from birth onwards, from the environment to this equipment.
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Medawar, J. (1980). An Historical Perspective. In: A Fairer Future for Children. National Children’s Bureau series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16290-1_5
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