Good Blood, Bad Blood: Science, Nature, and the Myth of the Kallikaks
By Unknown Author.
Description
Good Blood, Bad Blood is a landmark publication in the history of the treatment of people with disabilities in this country. Written in a compelling narrative style, it tells the story of the impact of the American eugenics movement the pseudoscience that claimed to improve racial hygiene through selective human breeding that excluded people perceived as feeble-minded or defective in some other way through the lens of a notorious and false eugenic narrative, The Kallikak Family, published in 1912 by the psychologist Henry Herbert Goddard. That book, focused on the life of a woman institutio...
ISBN(s)
1937604039, 9781937604035
