hereditarianism

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hereditarianism

(hə-rĕd′ĭ-târ′ē-ə-nĭz′əm)

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