The forbidden experiment

About this book

An account of the public life of a young boy who appeared in a French village in 1800 after living as a wild animal for most of his eleven or twelve years and of the attempts of a doctor to bring him to a civilized state.

Subjects

  • biographies
  • biography
  • deafness
  • developmental disabilities
  • enfants sauvages
  • feral children
  • history
  • psychology, experimental
  • social isolation
  • socialization
  • special education
  • wild boy of aveyron
  • wolfskinderen