hereditarianism


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hereditarianism

(hə-rĕd′ĭ-târ′ē-ə-nĭz′əm)
n.
The doctrine or school that regards heredity as more important than environmental influences in determining intelligence and behavior.
he·red′i·tar′i·an (hə-rĕd′ĭ-târ′ē-ən) adj. & n.
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"Heredity and Hereditarianism." Philosophy of Education: An Encyclopedia.
"A flash of fire": illness and the body in Look Homeward, Angel
Richard Hernstein and Charles Mwrray's The Bell Curve and the work of the egregious Philippe Rushton all point to a recrudescence of hereditarianism, and IQ testing with it.
Measuring the Mind: Education and Psychology in England, c. 1860-1990
and explicit hereditarianism. Herrnstein and Murray note the similarities and draw on him for their absurd concluding chapter.
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
For an analysis of the roots of generation theory in French psychiatry see Ian Dowbiggin, "Degeneration and hereditarianism in French mental science 1840-90: psychiatric theory as ideological adaption," in The Anatomy of Madness: Essays in the History of Psychiatry, vol.
Suicide, gender, and the fear of modernity in nineteenth-century medical and social thought
Hereditarianism (the theory that the major cause of mental problems, including substance abuse, was hereditary) was a major causal philosophy for much of the work at the retreat.
Moments of Unreason: The Practice of Canadian Psychiatry and the Homewood Retreat, 1883-1923
Interestingly, while there has been considerable scholarly work undertaken on the eugenics movement in the United States, hereditarianism and environmentalism have not been investigated as complementary ideas stemming from one unifying vision.
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