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Medical Child & Adolescent

Encounters with Wild Children

Temptation and Disappointment in the Study of Human Nature

by (author) Adriana S. Benzaquén

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2006
Category
Child & Adolescent
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773529724
    Publish Date
    Apr 2006
    List Price
    $50.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773580855
    Publish Date
    Apr 2006
    List Price
    $44.95

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Through detailed readings of a wide variety of accounts, debates, and representations, Encounters with Wild Children explores the many different meanings these children were given and the varied responses they elicited. Adriana Benzaquén explains why wild children continue to haunt and fascinate Western scientists and shows how the knowledge they have generated in different disciplines, including anthropology, psychology, psychiatry, pedagogy, linguistics, and sociology, has contributed to the shaping and reshaping of the modern understanding of "the child" and affected the social and institutional practices directed at all children in schools, welfare, mental health, and the law.

About the author

Adriana S. Benzaquén is assistant professor, history, Mount Saint Vincent University.

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