Genie: A Scientific Tragedy
The compelling story of a young woman's emergence into the world after spending her first 13 years strapped to a chair, and her rescue and exploitation by scientists hoping to gain new insight into language acquisition.
The compelling story of a young woman's emergence into the world after spending her first 13 years strapped to a chair, and her rescue and exploitation by scientists hoping to gain new insight into language acquisition.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060924652 (0060924659)
Publish date: January 12th 1994
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Biography,
Academic,
Literature,
Science,
Education,
Medical,
College,
Psychology,
Mental Health,
Mental Illness
I first learned about Genie's story while doing research for a college thesis. I had personal experience working with children who had been victims of severe neglect, and was writing a paper about their difficulties with language acquisition.This book struck me to the core. Not only is the subject e...
My mother recently brought me over boxes of books I haven't seen in years, one of which was Genie: A Scientific Tragedy. When I was still in college, I had planned on doing my senior psychology thesis on "unattached" children as they were called at the time, children who never properly bonded with a...
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