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Deviance as Pathology
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1876, Cesare Lombroso: The Criminal Man ◦ "atavistic anomalies" Phrenology (late 1700s through mid 1800s) Benjamin Rush (1785): disease model of alcoholism Body Types
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Determinism Positivism Organismic Dysfunction/Infection
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Earnest Hooten
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William Sheldon William Sheldon
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Endomorph
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Ectomorph
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Mesomorph
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Richard Dugdale ◦ The Jukes: A Study in Crime, Pauperism, Disease and Heredity (1877) The Jukes: A Study in Crime, Pauperism, Disease and Heredity Margaret Jukes, “The Mother of Criminals”
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Henry Goddard The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness (1912)
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Kallikak family tree http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Goddard/chart2.gif
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Xx female Xy male Xxy Klinefelter’s syndrome ◦ “Low masculinity” 1961, Patricia Jacobs ◦ Xyy “Supermale syndrome” NIMH study: no
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Sigmund Freud: Psychoanalysis ◦ id, ego, superego ◦ developmental stages Oral Anal Phallic
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The Psychopath (Sociopath) ◦ Hervey Cleckley, The Mask of Sanity Problems with psychological explanations ◦ Causal logic Circularity ◦ Sample ◦ Over-determinism ◦ Little predictive value
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Sterilization ◦ Harry Laughlin (Eugenics Records Office) Model Eugenical Sterilization Law 1914 ◦ By 1914, 12 states By 1924, 3,000 sterilized "...At one hearing, Laughlin plastered the walls of the meeting room with photographs taken at Ellis Island. Above the photos hung a banner that read 'Carriers of the Germ Plasm of the Future American Population.'"
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◦ 1924, Virginia: Eugenical Sterilization Act Carrie Buck (17, single mom) James Bell (Sup’t, VA State Colony for Epileptics & Feebleminded (to have Buck sterilized) ◦ Arthur Estabrook Arthur Estabrook Sociologist, Eugenics Record Office ◦ Upheld by Circuit Court ◦ Upheld by Supreme Court O. W. Holmes “3 generations of imbeciles are enough”
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◦ By 1935: 28 states, 6 pending By 1935: 28 states, 6 pending ◦ Between 1907-1935: 21,359 involuntary sterilizations in the U.S. ◦ 1936: Laughlin’s honorary degreeLaughlin’s honorary degree University of Heidelberg For his work in “the science of racial cleansing”
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◦ 1942: Skinner v. Oklahoma Chicken thief; armed robbery To U.S. Supreme Court William O. Douglas: violates “equal protection” 14 th amendment OK law: Can sterilize a chicken thief but not an embezzler ◦ Sterilization cont’d through 1970s 60,000 Buck v. Bell never overturned
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Psychosurgery ◦ Gottlieb Burckhardt (Switzerland, 1892) ◦ Antonio Moniz (Portugal, 1935)
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Walter Freeman & James Watt (U.S., 1950) ◦ “Ice-Pick” Lobotomy ◦ 1967 last surgery ◦ Stripped of license
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Freeman performing a lobotomy ◦ Howard Dully’s surgery
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Howard Dully, 2005 Howard Dully ◦ Bus driver in California
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Biological & Psychological Pathology ◦ Good Intentions ◦ Ignores choice ◦ Ignores social factors ◦ Dubious claims to moral neutrality
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