The Orphans of Davenport: Eugenics, the Great Depression, and the War Over Children's Intelligence by Marilyn Brookwood

The Orphans of Davenport: Eugenics, the Great Depression, and the War Over Children's Intelligence

Marilyn Brookwood

336 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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"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 t...

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