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Age Consciousness, Age Segregation, and Age Denigration

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Around the middle of the century, the first children’s hospitals appeared, as did a branch of medicine focused on children and their diseases, pediatrics. At the same time, age became a crucial legal category, defining when one could work, drink, smoke, marry, enter the military, and even have sexual relations.