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The Orphans Of Davenport Marilyn Brookwood

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The Orphans Of Davenport Marilyn Brookwood
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File Extension: MOBI
File size: 6.39 MB
Author: Marilyn Brookwood
Language: English
Year: 2021

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The Orphans Of Davenport Marilyn Brookwood by Marilyn Brookwood instant download after payment.

The fascinating—and eerily timely—tale of the forgotten Depression-era psychologists who overthrew long-accepted racist and classist views of childhood development.

"Doomed from birth" was how psychologist Harold Skeels described two toddler girls at the Orphans' Home in Davenport, Iowa, in 1934. Following prevailing eugenic beliefs, Skeels and his colleague Marie Skodak assumed that the girls had inherited their parents' low intelligence and sent them to an institution for the "feebleminded" to be cared for by "moron" women. To their astonishment, under the women's care, the children's IQ scores became normal. This revolutionary finding, replicated in eleven more "retarded" children, infuriated leading psychologists, all eugenicists unwilling to accept that nature and nurture work together to decide our fates.

Recasting Skeels and his team as intrepid heroes, Marilyn Brookwood weaves years of prodigious archival research to show how...

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