A Perfect Turmoil: Walter E. Fernald and the Struggle to Care for America's Disabled

by Alex Green

The rise, fall, and redemption of the doctor behind America's first public school for mentally disabled people

From the moment he became superintendent of the nation's oldest public school for intellectually and developmentally disabled children in 1887 until his death in 1924, Dr. Walter E. Fernald led a wholesale transformation of our understanding of disabilities in ways that continue to influence our views today. How did...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1954276427
• ISBN13: 9781954276420
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
• Length: 368 Pages