The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness

Name: The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness
Author: Henry Herbert Goddard

by Henry Herbert Goddard

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Mary Glenn Krause, MWS and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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2017-01-13

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Public domain in the USA.

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Heredity, Human Mental retardation People with mental disabilities

About the author

Henry Herbert Goddard

1866–1957

Best known for introducing the Binet-Simon intelligence test to the United States, this early psychologist helped shape debates about intelligence, education, and social policy. His legacy is complicated, because his work also became closely tied to the eugenics movement and deeply harmful ideas about disability and heredity.

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