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Arnold Gesell's Progressive Vision: Child Hygiene, Socialism and Eugenics (2011)

History of Psychology
Volume: 14
Pages: 311--334

Publication Date: 2011
Edition Details: Part of a special issue: “Psychology, Politics, and Public Policy”
Language: English

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Mental disorders and diseases Public health Hygiene Eugenics Psychology Public policy Child development 20th century, early United States Gesell, Arnold Lucius

In October 1913, The American Magazine published an article by Arnold Gesell that portrayed Alma, Wisconsin (his hometown) as overflowing with the mentally and morally unfit. In The Village of a Thousand Souls, Gesell called for the observation and segregation of the unfit as a eugenic measure. This article explores the reasons behind this infamous article by someone who became a famous developmental psychologist and pediatrician. Gesell's papers at the Library of Congress reveal his socialist views of poverty, injustice, and human development. The archives of his father's photography studio at the Wisconsin Historical Society reveal his manipulation of the photographic record to fit his negative view of Alma. Typical of the era, Gesell's Progressive vision combined social control and negative eugenics with egalitarianism and the benevolent engineering of the environment. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)

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Description Explores the reasons behind a popular eugenics article of 1913 by Gesell, who became a well-known developmental psychologist and pediatrician.

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Article Loss, Christopher P.; Pickren, Wade E. (2011) Introduction. History of Psychology (p. 217). unapi

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