The stuttering doctor's 'monster study:' having started to stammer as a young boy, Wendell Johnson was convinced that stutterers are made, not born. To prove it, he tried to turn a group of orphans into stutterers and then ignored the results

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Dr. Wendell Johnson conducted a study in 1939 that attempted to determine whether or not stutterling was a learned behavior. The results of the study were inconclusive, and were not found until 2001, long after Johnson's death. The long-term social effects of the research on the subjects, who were orphans, are described.

Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, Science & research, Research and Testing Services, Medical Research, Epilepsy & Muscle Disease R&D, Administration of Public Health Programs, Health Research Programs, Research, Stuttering, Medicine, Experimental

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Unspeakable conversations or how I spent one day as a token cripple at Princeton University

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A disability rights activist describes attending a conference at Princeton University to dispute the views of Peter Singer, who believes that parents should have the right to kill babies born with severe disabilities.

Personal narratives, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Disabled persons, Euthanasia, Singer, Peter (British judge), Disability rights activists

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The Anti-American Lifestyle

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The culture of North African immigrant farmers in Roussillon, France, is described.

France, Social aspects, International aspects, Description and travel, Roussillon, France, American culture, French culture

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