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Peer reviewedGelb, Steven A. – Mental Retardation, 1995
This paper examines how and why individuals with mental retardation were seen as a public menace between 1900 and 1920. Degenerationism is presented as a phenomenon that supports God's creation of humans in a civilized state, that explains human pathology as a medical/psychiatric degeneracy, and that characterizes degenerates as atavistic…
Descriptors: Creationism, Evolution, Humanism, Individual Development
