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 reached
far beyond the field of medicine--changes that placed teenagers
themselves at the center of the national agenda.
The first book to trace the history of adolescent medicine, "A
Doctor of Their Own "draws on oral histories of physicians in the
field, patient records from adolescent medical facilities, medical
and popular advice literature, and letters from teenagers and their
parents. Prescott examines the interplay between the emergence of
adolescent medicine and changes in American family relationships,
youth culture, popular perceptions about young people, and the
social experience of adolescence. With special attention to the
role of young people themselves in the shaping of this new
discipline, her book follows the development of adolescent medicine
from its origins in the work of J. Roswell Gallagher at Boston
Children's Hospital in the 1950s to its uncertain prospects today,
when, despite heightened recognition of their specific medical
needs, most teenagers still receive inadequate health care.
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