Kallikak Family
Author: first_name: Henry H.
last_name: Goddard
Language: English
Year: 1913

<i>The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness</i>, 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.
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