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...Benda: A Profile
...University's refusal to disclose Benda'spapers is not the only thing clouding a fullunderstanding of Harvard's involvement...
...little information that can be gleanedabout Benda--through profiles of the doctor, hispublished experiments and his ownwriting--presents a picture of a concerned,diligent scientist who strived for better care forthe afflicted...
...example, a New York Times article from May6, 1950, recalls that in a speech to the 106thmeeting of the American Psychiatric Association inDetroit, Benda urged that terms such as "mentaldeficiency, idiocy and imbecility" be discardedwhen speaking of the mentally retarded...
...Benda told the psychiatric association thatmental deficiency was not stationary and, in fact,could be reversed. He asked that state schools forthe mentally retarded be transformed intopsychiatric hospital-schools to care for and trainchildren...