The recognition that children had different medical needs to those of adults, began
to emerge in the 18th century and special hospitals were provided for them. Charité
Hospital in Berlin and the Hôpital Enfant Malades in Paris were amongst the first,
preceding London's Hospital for Sick Children at Great Ormond Street by more than
50 years. However, it took almost 200 years to recognise that there was a time period
between being a child and adulthood which too had different needs. Indeed, before
the Second World War, the concept of teenagers did not really exist. Writing in The Times in June 2003 on the occasion of the Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth, Richard Morrison
wrote (of June 1953) “In the most far reaching change of all a new species of humanity
was about to be created—THE TEENAGER. For the first time in history the unruly tastes
of children would take precedence over their parents wishes. The ‘generation gap’
was born.”
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- Bridging the Gaps: Health Care for Adolescents.RCPCH, London2003
- Palliative Care for Young People.ACT, Bristol2001
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