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PublisherCreateSpace
ISBN-101440434506
ISBN-139781440434501
eBay Product ID (ePID)80474354
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Book TitleKallikak Family
Number of Pages116 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2008
TopicPeople with Disabilities, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Psychopathology / General
GenreSocial Science, Science, Psychology
AuthorHenry Herbert Goddard
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.3 in
Item Weight8.2 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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SynopsisFirst published in 1912, this infamous study helped establish Henry Herbert Goddard as a leading figure in the eugenics movement, which sought to advance the human race through selective breeding. By contrasting two branches of the pseudononymous "Kallikak Family," Goddard argued for the existence of a hereditary trait, broadly-defined as "feeble-mindedness," which contributes to crime, poverty, and other social problems. Informed by eugenics research, the United States forcibly sterilized over 65,000 individuals between 1907 and 1981, and passed the Immigration Act of 1924, which turned away members of "undesirable" racial groups. Goddard's research has since been thoroughly debunked for its sloppy methodology, whereby upper-class fieldworkers were trained to assess feeble-mindedness at-a-glance. The Kallikak Family is widely cited as one of the central texts of the eugenics movement, and as an exemplar of politically-motivated pseudoscience.
