Girls and their monsters: the Genain quadruplets and the making of madness in America
Health and medicine, Science and medicine biography, Women biography, Psychology, Medicine
Human-narrated audio
Summary
In 1954, researchers at the newly formed National Institute of Mental Health set out to study the genetics of schizophrenia. When they got word that four, 24-year-old identical quadruplets in Lansing, Michigan, had all been diagnosed with the mental illness,… they could hardly believe their ears. Here was incontrovertible proof of hereditary transmission and, thus, a chance to bring international fame to their fledgling institution. This book chronicles the extraordinary lives of the quadruplets and the lead psychologist who studied them, the harrowing violence they experienced, and its psychological and political consequences. Adult. Unrated