The rising generation: laying claim to the health of adolescents in English Canada, 1920-70.
During the opening years of "Canada's Century," adolescents came to constitute a "youth problem," another of the often-overlapping "social problems" of the day. Medical doctors formed a significant cohort among those authorized to identify such potential threats to the national health, in its every sense. As they successfully professionalized, modernized, and took the reins of a burgeoning child welfare movement, doctors became increasingly interested in adolescents. This essay considers the medicalization of adolescence in English Canada between 1920 and 1970. During this half-century, doctors and other "experts" shaped and shared approaches to the all-encompassing "health" of the young, in collectively theorizing a modern adolescence.
Comacchio
Cynthia
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Department of History, Wilfrid Laurier University.
D000293:Adolescent; D002170:Canada; D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D011634:Public Health / Q000266:history*; D012940:Social Problems / Q000266:history*