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The Kallikak Family
Henry Goddard
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The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness, written by famous American psychologist and eugenicist Henry H. Goddard, is a famous but controversial extended case study following the Kallikak family (a pseudonym from the Greek words Kallos "beauty" and Kakos "bad") for the inheritance of "feeble-mindedness," a general category referring to a variety of mental disabilities including mental disabilities, learning disabilities, and mental illness.
Goddard concluded that a variety of mental traits were hereditary and society should limit reproduction by people possessing these traits, which in turn helped to spur on the destructive eugenics movement, especially in the United States.
Note: For the charts printed in Chapter II and referred to throughout the text, please refer to a visual copy of the book
The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness, written by famous American psychologist and eugenicist Henry H. Goddard, is a famous but controversial extended case study following the Kallikak family (a pseudonym from the Greek words Kallos "beauty" and Kakos "bad") for the inheritance of "feeble-mindedness," a general category referring to a variety of mental disabilities including mental disabilities, learning disabilities, and mental illness.
Goddard concluded that a variety of mental traits were hereditary and society should limit reproduction by people possessing these traits, which in turn helped to spur on the destructive eugenics movement, especially in the United States.
Note: For the charts printed in Chapter II and referred to throughout the text, please refer to a visual copy of the book
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This book is important as a historic document, but reading it makes one appreciate the vigor and wide view of modern science. In this book, the causes are assumed and the effects are amplified by doctored photographs. The conclusions are similarly, frighteningly misguided.
This gets 3 starts just for the historical nature of the books and its ease of reading. It’s a perfect example of how psychological science has been use to uphold existing social beliefs that are truly terrifying. Essentially he believes we should at minimum institutionalize “feeble-minded” people s
Until I read this book, I thought eugenics was a Nazi Germany pseudoscience. I obviously was misinformed. A disturbing read. But one I highly recommend.