A Second Study of the Influence of Parental Alcoholism on the Physique and Ability of the Offspring. Being a Reply to Certain Medical Critics of the First Memoir and an Examination of the Rebutting Evidence Cited by Them.
Published by London: Dulau, 1910.
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Seller: Scientia Books, ABAA ILAB, Arlington, MA, U.S.A.Scientia Books, ABAA ILAB
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2 leaves, 35 pp; 3 diagrams. Folio. Original wrappers. Small pieces missing at top & bottom of spine. Small piece torn from blank bottom corner of rear wrapper. Paper sticker on front wrapper (covering printed price information). Very Good. First Edition. Eugenics Laboratory Memoirs XIII. University of London Francis Galton Laboratory for National Eugenics. Quoting from Prefatory Note (p. 1): "The following reply to certain medical critics of our first memoir, accompanied by an examination of the rebutting evidence cited by them, is issued with no delight in controversy. The staff of the Galton Laboratory has far too much urgent work in hand--work which its members think of great social value, and with the magnitude of which their present resources are quite unable to cope--to take pleasure in demonstrating the fallacies of their critics. But we look upon the problem of alcohol as a great national problem, and a problem with which the nation can only hope to cope when it knows the actual facts as to alcohol. These facts are not known at present; they are obscured by passionate rhetoric and hopeless bias. Taking the extreme cases of alcoholism, cases where at least we have certainty of its evil effects on the individual--which is far more than we can assert of its customary and moderate use--we find alcoholism associated in the individual with mental defect. This association has been everywhere interpreted by the advocates of temperance as causation. They have never investigated whether the mental defect was antecedent to or consequent on the alcoholism, or how far it was partly one or partly the other.".…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- A Second Study of the Influence of Parental Alcoholism on the Physique and Ability of the Offspring. Being a Reply to Certain Medical Critics of the First Memoir and an Examination of the Rebutting Evidence Cited by Them.
- Author
- PEARSON, Karl & Ethel M. ELDERTON
- Publisher
- London: Dulau, 1910.
- Condition
- Very good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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