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100 1  Brookwood, Marilyn,|eauthor. 
245 14 The orphans of Davenport :|beugenics, the Great Depression,
       and the war over children's intelligence /|cMarilyn 
       Brookwood. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bLiveright Publishing Corporation, a 
       division of W.W. Norton & Company,|c[2021] 
300    viii, 339 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-322) and 
       index. 
505 00 |tPrologue: nature or nurture? --|tPart I: Origins. How it
       all began --|tStarting over --|tTransparent waifs, pitiful
       creatures --|tFrom a dog you do not get a cat --|tA 
       clinical surprise --|tPart II: Backlash. A revelation and 
       a mystery --|tOrphan studies out in public --|tThe way the
       land lies --|t"Even if it didn't work, it was a good 
       idea!" --|tA chill in the air --|tPart III: Revival. 
       Reversal of fortune --|tThe counter-argument --|tEpilogue:
       the miracle of science. 
520    "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 after decades of backlash, the Iowans finally 
       prevailed. In a dangerous time of revived white supremacy,
       The Orphans of Davenport is an essential account, 
       confirmed today by neuroscience, of the power of the 
       Iowans' scientific vision"--|cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Eugenics|zUnited States|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 Children of parents with mental disabilities|xIntelligence
       levels|zIowa|zDavenport|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 Children of parents with mental disabilities
       |xInstitutional care|zIowa|zDavenport|xHistory|y20th 
       century. 
650  0 Nature and nurture|zUnited States|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 Child development|zUnited States|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 Child psychology|zUnited States|y20th century.