The Kallikak Family
Title | The Kallikak Family PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Herbert Goddard |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 168 |
Release | 1912 |
Genre | Heredity |
ISBN |
Heredity of Feeble-mindedness
Title | Heredity of Feeble-mindedness PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Herbert Goddard |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 26 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Eugenics |
ISBN |
"The Jukes": a Study in Crime, Pauperism, Disease, and Heredity
Title | "The Jukes": a Study in Crime, Pauperism, Disease, and Heredity PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Louis Dugdale |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 148 |
Release | 1877 |
Genre | Correctional institutions |
ISBN |
Measuring Minds
Title | Measuring Minds PDF eBook |
Author | Leila Zenderland |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 484 |
Release | 2001-04-23 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780521003636 |
This book explores intelligence testing in the US through the career of Henry Herbert Goddard.
The Kallikak Family
Title | The Kallikak Family PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Herbert Goddard |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 168 |
Release | 1912 |
Genre | Heredity |
ISBN |
She Has Her Mother's Laugh
Title | She Has Her Mother's Laugh PDF eBook |
Author | Carl Zimmer |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 672 |
Release | 2018-05-29 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1101984600 |
2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalist "Science book of the year"—The Guardian One of New York Times 100 Notable Books for 2018 One of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Books of 2018 One of Kirkus's Best Books of 2018 One of Mental Floss's Best Books of 2018 One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2018 “Extraordinary”—New York Times Book Review "Magisterial"—The Atlantic "Engrossing"—Wired "Leading contender as the most outstanding nonfiction work of the year"—Minneapolis Star-Tribune Celebrated New York Times columnist and science writer Carl Zimmer presents a profoundly original perspective on what we pass along from generation to generation. Charles Darwin played a crucial part in turning heredity into a scientific question, and yet he failed spectacularly to answer it. The birth of genetics in the early 1900s seemed to do precisely that. Gradually, people translated their old notions about heredity into a language of genes. As the technology for studying genes became cheaper, millions of people ordered genetic tests to link themselves to missing parents, to distant ancestors, to ethnic identities... But, Zimmer writes, “Each of us carries an amalgam of fragments of DNA, stitched together from some of our many ancestors. Each piece has its own ancestry, traveling a different path back through human history. A particular fragment may sometimes be cause for worry, but most of our DNA influences who we are—our appearance, our height, our penchants—in inconceivably subtle ways.” Heredity isn’t just about genes that pass from parent to child. Heredity continues within our own bodies, as a single cell gives rise to trillions of cells that make up our bodies. We say we inherit genes from our ancestors—using a word that once referred to kingdoms and estates—but we inherit other things that matter as much or more to our lives, from microbes to technologies we use to make life more comfortable. We need a new definition of what heredity is and, through Carl Zimmer’s lucid exposition and storytelling, this resounding tour de force delivers it. Weaving historical and current scientific research, his own experience with his two daughters, and the kind of original reporting expected of one of the world’s best science journalists, Zimmer ultimately unpacks urgent bioethical quandaries arising from new biomedical technologies, but also long-standing presumptions about who we really are and what we can pass on to future generations.
Good Blood, Bad Blood
Title | Good Blood, Bad Blood PDF eBook |
Author | J. David Smith |
Publisher | American Association |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Eugenics |
ISBN | 9781937604035 |
"At the vortex of the American eugenics tragedy was the seemingly sordid tale of a ''degenerate'' family from rural New Jersey. Published in 1912, The Kallikak Family was a pseudoscientific treatise describing generations of illiterate, poor, and purportedly immoral Kallikak family members who were chronically unemployed, ''feebleminded, '' criminal, and, in general, perceived as threats to ''racial hygiene.'' Psychologist Henry Herbert Goddard invented the pseudonym ''Kallikak''-from the Greek words Kallos (beauty) and Kakos (bad)-to illustrate the eugenic belief in the role of nature and heredity as unalterable forces leading to degeneracy, and his tale of the contrasting fates of the disparate Kallikak ancestral lines reigned for decades as seemingly conclusive proof of the hereditary nature of intelligence, feeblemindedness, criminal behavior, and degeneracy. The starting point for Goddard's moral tale was ''Deborah Kallikak, '' an inmate at his institution for the feebleminded. In the 100 years since publication of The Kallikak Family, the woman Goddard called ''Deborah'' has remained in the shadows of history, known only by the name forced upon her. Using new source material, Good Blood, Bad Blood tells her story in its entirety-in dramatic, narrative style-for the first time. It is a landmark publication in disability studies, vital to understanding of both this specific American tragedy and the history of efforts to manipulate the human population."--Back cover.