Book Reviews and Abstracts

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  • George J. Klir
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on the following subjects:?the incidence of defect; the physiology of reproduction; various types of insanity (apparently picked at random); the menace of the feeble minded; criminal insanity; sterilisation, voluntary and compulsory; birth control, and a Chapter entitled "Terrible Families," giving an account of the Kallikak and the Jukes family. Very highly debatable propositions are set down as indisputable facts. For instance, it is repeated frequently throughout the book that heredity is the main cause of Mental Deficiency. It is also stated again and again that the effect of sterilisation is entirely beneficial, bringing about an " improvement in health, sometimes amounting to revitalization in the case of ailing persons who are operated upon voluntarily." In a chapter dealing with the objections to sterilisation the only objections considered are sentimental and not those which

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دوره 7  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2002