A Study of Human Heredity: Methods of Collecting, Charting, and Analyzing Data

Davenport, Charles Benedict; Laughlin, Harry Hamilton; Weeks, David F.; Johnstone, E. R.; Goddard, Henry H.

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“…65 Students of eugenics in the U.S. trained at the Eugenics Record Office (ERO) read those books and learned to list the telltale signs of degeneration and decay in pedigrees, with alcohol listed as the alphabetically first and key consideration in compiling a heredity chart. 66…”

Section: Racial Poisons and Alcohol: The Eugenic Contextmentioning

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“We Who Champion the Unborn”: Racial Poisons, Eugenics, and the Campaign for Prohibition

Lombardo¹

2022

J. Law. Med. Ethics

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Dr. Caleb Williams Saleeby was the author of Parenthood and Race Culture, one of the first monographs on eugenics and the book that popularized the term “racial poison.” The goal of eradicating the racial poisons and the harm they caused — particularly infant morbidity and mortality — provided common ground for early 20th century reformers, and their concerns fed the growing support for legal prohibition of alcohol.

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Section: Racial Poisons and Alcohol: The Eugenic Contextmentioning

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“We Who Champion the Unborn”: Racial Poisons, Eugenics, and the Campaign for Prohibition

Lombardo¹

2022

J. Law. Med. Ethics

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“…The first major methodologic point raised by Heron focuses on the nature of the field work. Heron quotes from a monograph by Davenport where he describes the methods of data collection that he established at the Eugenics Record Office (Davenport, Laughlin, Weeks, Johnstone, & Goddard, 1911). Some defects that the field-worker will study, such as albinism and feeble-mindedness, are known as recessive defects, i.e., they are defects due to the absence of the determiner making for normality in respect to these traits… For example, by hypothesis, feeblemindedness is for the most part a recessive trait, and the hypothesis must be tested as follows: The fieldworker finds a person suffering from feeble-mindedness, a descendant of two normal parents-by hypothesis both of these parents are simplex [heterozygous]; the field-worker must understand that each parent will probably have somewhere in his or her ancestry a feebleminded person, and it is the business of the fieldworker to make a special search for such person or persons in the pedigree [Italics in original].…”

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The beginnings of the debate between the Mendelians and the Biometricians in psychiatric genetics: David Heron, Karl Pearson, Abraham Rosanoff, and Charles Davenport 1913–1914

Kendler

2021

American J of Med Genetics Pt B

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The world learned of the heated dispute about the methodology of the early works by Davenport and Rosanoff claiming Mendelian transmission patterns for mental handicap and psychiatric illness in a bold headline in the New York Times on Sunday, November 9, 1913: ENGLISH EXPERT ATTACKS AMERICAN EUGENIC WORK. I here focus on the debate surrounding Rosanoff's 1911 study where he presented evidence that the neuropathic constitution, including, among its manifestations, dementia praecox, and manic-depressive illness, was an autosomal recessive trait.The "English expert," David Heron, a student of Pearson's, launched the debate in his 1913 paper which argued that Rosanoff's field work methods were biased, his clinical assessments sloppy, his phenotype far too broad, and his statistical approach flawed.Both Davenport, Rosanoff's mentor, and Rosanoff vigorously defended their methods. Behind this sometimes personal debate was the long simmering controversy about the relative validity of Biometrical genetic (represented by Heron and Pearson) and Mendelian genetic (represented by Rosanoff and Davenport) models for genetic transmission in plants, animals and, especially, humans. A review suggests that most of Heron's criticisms were valid. This episode presages later controversies within psychiatric genetics, for example between twin and linkage researchers in the 1980s and 1990s.

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“…Bulletin #2 from the ERO was coauthored by Weeks and ERO and Vineland staff (Fig. 8) (Davenport et al, 1911), which contained coding information to be used in pedigree analyses including the specific notations for target disorders including epilepsy (Fig. 9).…”

Section: Eugenics In America Epilepsy and The New Jersey Village Fomentioning

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100 years of Epilepsia: Landmark papers and their influence in neuropsychology and neuropsychiatry

Hermann

2010

Epilepsia

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SUMMARYAs part of the 2009 International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) Centenary Celebration, a special symposium was dedicated to Epilepsia (100 Years of Epilepsia: Landmark Papers and Their Influence). The Associate Editors were asked to identify a particularly salient and meaningful paper in their areas of expertise. From the content areas of neuropsychology and neuropsychiatry two very interesting papers were identified using quite different ascertainment techniques. One paper addressed the problem of psychosis in temporal lobe epilepsy, whereas the other represents the first paper to appear in Epilepsia presenting quantitative assessment of cognitive status in epilepsy. These two papers are reviewed in detail and placed in historical context.

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A Study of Human Heredity: Methods of Collecting, Charting, and Analyzing Data

Cited by 4 publications

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“We Who Champion the Unborn”: Racial Poisons, Eugenics, and the Campaign for Prohibition

“We Who Champion the Unborn”: Racial Poisons, Eugenics, and the Campaign for Prohibition

The beginnings of the debate between the Mendelians and the Biometricians in psychiatric genetics: David Heron, Karl Pearson, Abraham Rosanoff, and Charles Davenport 1913–1914

100 years of Epilepsia: Landmark papers and their influence in neuropsychology and neuropsychiatry

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