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

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

Marilyn Brookwood, Marilyn Brookwood

352 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative reflective slow-paced
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“Doomed from birth” was how psychologist Harold Skeels described two toddler girls at the Iowa Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home in Davenport, Iowa, in 1934. Their IQ scores, added together, totaled just 81. Following prevailing eugenic beliefs of the times...

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