Kallikak Family
By Henry H. Goddard · Running time 02:23:08 · Psychology
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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 thes
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