| Description |
ix, 466 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in the history of psychology |
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Cambridge studies in the history of psychology.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Motives, Meanings, and Contexts -- 1. Spirit and Science: Faith, Healing, and Mission -- 2. "A Little Child Shall Lead Them": Educational Evangelism and Child Study -- 3. "Psychological Work among the Feeble-Minded": The Medical Meaning of "Mental Deficiency" -- 4. Psychological Work in the Schools: The Statistical Meaning of "Subnormality" -- 5. Causes and Consequences: The Kallikak Family as Eugenic Parable -- 6. The Biology and Sociology of "Prevention": "Defectives, Dependents, and Delinquents" -- 7. Psychological Work and the State: Reformers, Professionals, and the Public -- 8. Psychological Work and the Nation: The Political Meaning of Intelligence -- 9. Leaving Vineland: Popularity, Notoriety, and a Place in History -- Epilogue: Psychological Legacies, Historical Lessons, and Luck -- Major Manuscript Collections Consulted -- Publications by Henry Herbert Goddard |
| Summary |
This book offers the first complete study of the origins of American intelligence testing. It follows the life and work of Henry Herbert Goddard, America's first intelligence tester and author of the most popular American eugenics tract, The Kallikak Family ... The book also explores the broader legacies of the testing movement by showing how Goddard's ideas helped to reshape the very meaning of mental retardation, special education, clinical psychology, and the "normal" mind in ways that would be felt for the rest of the century |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 366-441) and index |
| Subject |
Goddard, Henry Herbert, 1866-1957.
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Intelligence tests -- United States -- History.
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Psychologists -- United States -- Biography.
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Intelligence Tests -- history.
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Psychology.
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| SUBJECT |
United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
| LC no. |
97006101 |
| ISBN |
0521003636 (paperback) |
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0521443733 (hardcover) |
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