A Doctor of Their Own: The History of Adolescent Medicine
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Parents have known since time immemorial, and social scientists have agreed since the turn of the century, that adolescents are a people unto themselves--a "distinct developmental category." Yet it was not until the 1950s that a medical specialty specifically for teenagers came into being. In this book, Heather Munro Prescott shows how the mid-twentieth-century emergence of adolescent medicine resulted from a combination of social changes that...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0674214617
ISBN13:9780674214613
Release Date:October 1998
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Length:256 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"
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