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Head and shoulders, full view of K. Walter Hickel

K. Walter Hickel, Ph.D., is a historian of social welfare, disability policy, and biomedical research in the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine. He has written about U.S. social policy during the Progressive Era and about the origins of America's disability programs. He is currently at work on studies of the child development movement and the cultural politics of disability in the United States during the 20th century, as well as of the history of the debate over genetics and intelligence.


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