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A Perfect Turmoil: Walter E. Fernald and the Struggle to Care for America's Disabled

A Perfect Turmoil: Walter E. Fernald and the Struggle to Care for America's Disabled

Green, Alex

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Biographies General20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Sociology

Publisher Price: $21.99

ISBN10: 1954276427
ISBN13: 9781954276420
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Published: Apr 1 2025
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.98 Depth: 8.82
Language: English

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER

The rise, fall, and redemption of the doctor behind America's first public school for mentally disabled people

From the moment he became superintendent of the nation's oldest public school for intellectually and developmentally disabled children in 1887 until his death in 1924, Dr. Walter E. Fernald led a wholesale transformation of our understanding of disabilities in ways that continue to influence our views today. How did the man who designed the first special education class in America, shaped the laws of entire nations, and developed innovative medical treatments for the disabled slip from idealism into the throes of eugenics before emerging as an opponent of mass institutionalization? Based on a decade of research, A Perfect Turmoil is the story of a doctor, educator, and policymaker who was unafraid to reverse course when convinced by the evidence, even if it meant going up against some of the most powerful forces of his time.

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