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John Gach Books, Inc. 10514 Marriottsville Road (Rear Building) PO Box 267 Randallstown, Maryland 21133 |
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John Gach Books, Inc. 10514 Marriottsville Road (Rear Building) PO Box 267 Randallstown, Maryland 21133 |
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Contains Henry Cotton's translation of Alzheimer's "The Present Status of Our Knowledge of the Pathologial History of the Cortex in the Psychoses"; Paul Bowers' "Prison Psychosis. A Pseudonym?"; H. M. Swift's "Insanity and Race"; A. J. Rosanoff's "Dissimilar Heredity in Mental Disease"; F. S. Hammond's "Statistical Studies in Syphilis with the Wasserman Reaction, with Remarks on General Paralysis". Rosanoff's is one of the first papers on the genetics of mental illness.
Contains Myerson's "Psychiatric Family Studies" (pp. 355-486); "Minta Kemp's "Consanguinity Among Patients at the Newberry State Hospital, Newberry, Mich."; "Sideny Wilgus' "Remarks on State Charities Laws…"; A. E. Taft's "Observations on Brain Atrophy with and without Widening of the Sulci"; C. E. Riggs' "The Korsakoff Syndrome (Toxaemic Cerebropathy) in Pregnancy"; Noboru Ishida's "Results Produced in Dementia Praecox or So-Called 'Endogogenous Dementia' by the Infusion of Sodium Chloride Solution" (possibly the first contribution to the journal by a Japanese psychiatrist: the author was professor of psychiatry at Nagasaki Medical College).
Arunachalam was a biometrical geneticist with the Indian Agricultural Institute in New Delhi; Owen was lecturer in genetics at Cambridge University.
Proceedings of the National Society of Genetic Counselors 6th Educational Conference held in Philadelphia 1986.
A Free University of Amsterdam doctoral dissertation, in English with a Dutch summary.
For the most part a different book from his landmark 1902 work with the same title, though it also includes translations of Mendel's important 1866 and 1870 papers. The third impression has added appendices reporting work done since the original 1909 printing.
Beadle shared the 1958 Nobel Prize for his work on the genetics of Neurospora.
Contains 57 papers, mostly in German with a few in English or French. Divided into the following sections: Psychiatry; Neurology; Neuropathology; Psychology and Psychopathology; Care of Mental Patients, psychic prophylaxy, eugenics; Forensic Psychiatry; Genetics and Neuropsychiatry.
14 papers including Alan Ryan's "The Nature of Human Nature in Hobbes and Rousseau"; Jeann-Marie Benoist's "Classicism Revisited: Human Nature and Structure in Lévi-Strauss and Chomsky"; Koestler's "The Limits of Ma and His Predicament"; David Bohm's "Human Nature as the Product of our Mental Models"; Raymond Williams's "Social Darwinism"; John Maynard Smith's "Can We Change Human Nature? The Evidence of Genetics"; Michael Chance's "The Dimensions of Our Social Behavior"; Liam Hudson's "The Limits of Human Intelligence"; Max Clowes's "Man the Creative Machine: A Perspective from Artificial Intelligence Research"; Terry Winograd's "The Processes of Language Understanding."
Also issued as Supplementeum 23 of Scandinavian Journal of Social Medicine. Berglin's study demonstrates the existence of a regular pattern of skewed birth order distribution in sociomedical cases, points to definite population mechanisms causing skewness, and shows that the idea of a balanced birth order distribtuion within a birth cohort is severely misleading.
Candolle, who succeeded his father in 1835 in the Chair of Botany and in the directorship of the Botanical Gardens, is most famous for his 1855 Géographie botanique raisonnée, still the key work of phytogeography. In 1873 "he published a remarkable book, Histoire des sciences et des savants depuis deux siècles, [which] displays both the naturalist's objectivity and the jurist's clarity. Darwin had just published his own works when Candolle wrote the Histoire; and Candolle was enthusiastic over the thesis of natural selection, which he applied with keen intelligence to the moral and intellectual characteristics of man and of human societies" [DSB III, p. 42].
The N. W. Harris Lectures for 1914.
Contributions by L. Barker, Albert Barrett, Dana, Charles B. Davenport, Jelliffe, N.D.C. Lewis, Bernard Sachs, et al.
Donkin was Medical Adviser to the Prison Commissioners for England and Wales; Member of the Prisons Board; and Consulting Physician to Westminster Hospital & the East London Hospital for Children.
Psychological study of twins performed 1936-1938 at the Psychological Instiute of the University of Gießen.
Entirely devoted to psychological topics, with its seven chapters being on natural heritage; on degenerations in man; on moral and criminal epidemics; body v. mind; illusions and hallucinations; on somnambulism; reverie and abstraction.
Contains 6 chapters: The New Mother; The Renovation of the Family; The Function of Taboos; The Revaluation of Obscenity; The Control of Population; Eugenics and the Future.
The 5th edition contains an added section on configuration in three or more dimensions.
Fuller and Thompson founded the field of behavior genetics in 1960 with the publication of their first book on the subject.
Galton's great survey of the natural & nurtural influences exerted on English scientists.
GM 230; Norman catalog 866.
Contains Galton's chief contributions to psychology. Strongly influenced by his cousin's Origin of Species, Galton began reflecting on the influence of heredity on the human race. Impressed by the fact that distinction of any kind is apt to run in families, he made a series of statistical investigations whereby he showed the heritability of genius of all kinds. The results are set forth in several books, including Inquiries into Human Faculty. The study of heredity led Galton to the conviction that the human race might gain an indefinite improvement by breeding from the best & restricting the offspring of the worst. To this study he gave the name Eugenics.
The Everyman edition omits the chapters "Theocratic Intervention" and "Objective Efficacy of Prayer."
GM 233. A continuation of Galton's classic anthropometric studies begun with the publication of Hereditary Genius."By the employment of statistical methods Galton propounded a 'law of filial regression.' This book represents the first statistical study of biological variation and inheritance" [GM].
The Nazi racial purity laws with interpretation and illustrated contributions by Lexer and Eymer on how to sterilize males and females. The basis for the sterilization (and later elimination) of Jews, Gypsies, mental defectives, homosexuals. A ghastly document of clear world-historical importance.
OCLC locates 7 copies: NY Public; UCLA; Yale Law; LC; Harvard Law & Countway; Cleveland HS Library.
Though methodologically flawed, this is the pioneer family study of schizophrenia.
Kalmus was Lecturer in Eugenics at University College, London.
Part I is a study of average children, Part II of the idiosyncrasies of gifted children, while Part III contains the statistical data.
Luxenburger was a prominent Munich psychiatrist famous for his dictum "heredity is not destiny, but potential destiny."
Sectionss on the hereditary causes of insanity; statistics; and the effect of hereditary on individual predisposion. Mairet was clinical professor of nervous & mental diseases at Montpelier; Ardin-Delteil was professor of medicine at the School of Medicine of Algiers.
Contains essays on religion and the sciences of life; mechanism, purpose and the new freedom; the Apollonian and the Dionysian theories of man; the need for psychical research; psychical research as a university study; anthropology and history; Japan or America - an open letter to H.I.M. the emperor of Japan; the island of Eugenia - the fantasy of a foolish philosopher; family allowances: a practical eugenic suggestion; family allowances as a eugenic measaure; was Darwin wrong?; world chaos - the responsibility of science as cause and cure; our neglect of psychology; ethics of natinalism; whither America?
Meisenheimer was Professor of Zoology at the University of Leipzig.
Reprint of part one of the 1934 expanded revision of the section in 1929 The Foundations of Experimental Psychology. Contains W. J. Crozier's "The Study of Living Organisms"; "T. H. Morgan's "Mecahnisms and Laws of Heredity"; Alexander Forbes's "The Mechanisms of Reaction"; J. G. Dusser de Barenne's "THe Labyrinthine and Postural Mechanisms"; W. B. Cannon's "Hunger and Thirst"; Philip Bard's "Emotion: I. The Neuro-humoral Basis of Emotional Reactions"; Carney Landis's "Emotion: II. The Expression of Emotion"; Calvin P. Stone's "Learnin: I. The Factor of Motivation"; Clark L. Hull's "Learning: II. The Factor of the Conditioned Reflex"; K. S. Lashley's "Learning: III. Nervous Mechanisms in Learning"; Walter S. Hunter's "Learning: IV. Experimental Studies of Learning"; Edward S. Robinson's " Work of the Integrated Organism."Contains Hull on the conditioned reflex, Lashley on nervous mechanisms in learning, Cannon on hunger & thirst, Morgan on heredity, 3 chapters on vision, 3 on hearing, etc.
Professor of Neurology at Tufts, Myerson became interested in psychiatric genetics when he collaborated around 1910 with the St. Louis neuropsychiatrist William Washington Graves. Myerson served as clinical director and pathologist at Taunton State Hospital in Massachusets from 1913 to 1917. There he studied the records of all patients admitted since 1854, examining current patients and their relatives. He published his findings here, dedicating the book to Graves. Myerson showed that ten percent of the families involved had had more than one member committed, and concluded that schizophrenia and manic-depressive psychosis appeared to be hereditary, while other mental diseases did not.
Mostly devoted to medical genetics. Chapters on constituion and tuberculosis and infectious diseases. Naegeli was Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Zurich.
Noël was Regius Professor of Physiology at the University of Glasgow. Contains chapters on life & heredity; reproduction; sex; determination of sex; relationship of the germ cells to the somal cells; influence of the gonads upon the soma; influence of the soma on the gonads; sexual life; nutrition of the zygote before birth; parturition; nutrition of the infant.
The standard biography, not likely ever to be exceeded in its wealth of detail — as Jeremy Norman added in a note to Galton's Hereditary Genius in his 5th edition of Garrison & Morton: "one of the most remarkable biographies ever published on any scientist." Pearson, a close friend and himself a distinguished scientist, intended his work to be not just a biography but a monument to Galton's many achievements. Pearson included a complete comparison with Galton's ancestors (Charles Darwin was his cousin) and provides a complete description of Galton's work and publications. The founder of eugenics (which word he coined in 1883), Galton also is a central figure in the history of psychology, initiating the modern study of individual differences. Included in the set are numerous facsimiles from Galton's publications and all the illustrations in his important 1893 Finger Prints, which created the modern taxonomical system for comparing fingerprints that is still used today.
The first textbook devoted solely to the genetics of mental disorders.
OCLC records 4 copies: Univ Calif, Berkeley; Univ Minn; Univ North Carolina, Greensboro; Niedersachsische Staats- und Univ. Only the Center for Research Libraries is recorded as having the dissertation. First published the year before as the author's doctoral dissertation.
Appraises the status of knowledge in eugenic research.
Semon's second & last book on the psychology of memory.
Regarded as one of the pioneers of modern Swedish psychiatry and an early researcher in psychiatric genetics, Sjögren has a number of syndromes named after him: Graefe-Sjögren (retinitis pigmentosa combined with spinocerebellar ataxia & deafness); Marinesco-Sjögren (a rare congenital disorder with stationary spinocerebellar ataxia, congenital cataract, hypertension, dysarthria, short stature, abnormal teeth, brittle thin hair, mental retardation, and skeletal deformities); Sjögren-Larsson (a form of severe mental deficiency endemic in Sweden). Sjögren became head physician at the University of Lund Psychiatric Clinic in 1931. 1932-1935 he was head physician and hospital director at the Lillehagen Hospital in Gothenburg; 1935-1945 physician-in-chief at the psychiatric department of the Sahlgrenska sjukhuset in Gothenburg, where he was instrumental in establishing the psychiatric unit. He became Chair of Psychiatry at the Karolinska Institutet in 1945.
Stockard was professor of anatomy and director of the anatomical institute at Cornell University.
Tendeloo was Professor of General Pathology and Pathological Anatomy at Leiden.
First U.S. edition issued in 1934. Jelliffe's introduction was written for and only appears in the American edition.
An excellent introduction to ideas about heredity at the time. Thomson was professor of natural history at the University of Aberdeen and wrote a number of expositions of science for the literate lay public.
A classic statement of the nature/nurture problem.
Essentially, a eugenicist argument. Chapters on the scientific study of variation and heredity; inheritance and variation in mankind; inheritance of mental defect; inheritance of ability; rise of families; decline of families; the birth-rate; the selective birth-rate—its effects; the decline in the birth-rate—its causes.
A comparative study of the Jukes and Jonathan Edwards lineages. As one might guess, the Jukeses (as described by Dugdale) don't fare well.
Lecturer in Biology at MIT, Woods was particularly interested in the heredity of royalty. He had originally published his work on some three thousand members of royal and noble families in Popular Science Monthly from August 1902 to April 1903, with the enlarged book version published by Holt in 1906 as Mental and Moral Heredity in Royalty. The present book is the first application of his method to historical interpretation, which he called historiometry.
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