This volume traces the early history of the Montessori movement as it entered into the United States through the lives and careers of four key American women: Anne George, Margaret Naumburg, Helen Parkhurst, and Adelia Pyle, contextualizing the movement through these figures.
Capsule Summary•Melanoma incidence is climbing without a decrease in mortality.•White patients make up the majority of patients with melanoma, but minority counterparts have worse survival outcomes and are given a diagnosis at later stages.•The disparities in health outcomes for minorities present a need for more awareness among providers to improve survival.How did this article change the practice of dermatology?Although melanoma is often considered a disease of white patients, minority patients are diagnosed later in their disease course and have worse survival. This points to the need to increase awareness and education in these minority groups.1
While not yet a true profession, leadership can and should aspire to become a legitimately recognized professional activity to provide validity to the study and practice of leadership and precision to the term “leader.” Using a threefold analytical framework as a heuristic, the analysis shows that the areas where leadership falls short as a profession relate to establishing and controlling the abstract body of knowledge that provides its jurisdiction and helps to highlight that doing so is essential to the professionalization process. Developing an accepted scope of services and a code of ethics will help resolve the jurisdictional “ownership” of leadership and elevate its study and practice from a routine organizational activity to a legitimate profession that makes a unique and meaningful contribution to society.
