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Manon Parry

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Manon Parry, MA, MSc, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bldg 38, Room 1E 21, Bethesda, MD 20894 (e-mail: parrym@mail.nlm.nih.gov).

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G. STANLEY HALL WAS instrumental in founding psychology as a science and in its development as a profession. He is best known for his work on child development, especially adolescence, yet he also wrote a powerful treatise on the economic, social, and intellectual isolation of the elderly. Senescence, excerpted here, was the first major analysis by an American social scientist of the changing experience of aging.¹

Granville Stanley Hall was born on his parents’ farm in Ashfield, Mass, on February 1, 1844. His father, Granville Bascom Hall, served in the Massachusetts legislature, and his mother, Abigail Beals, studied at . . . [Full Text]