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The Mongol In Our Midst
''The Mongol in Our Midst: A Study of Man and His Three Faces'' is the title of the pseudo-scientific book written by British physician Francis Graham Crookshank and published in 1924. The book, characteristic of the consequently discredited ideas of scientific racism prevalent at the time, explored and presented the idea that " Mongolian imbecility" (a form of intellectual disability now called Down's syndrome and known to be caused by the replication (trisomy) of the chromosome 21) was an atavistic throwback to, and/or the result of, rape committed by members of the supposedly more primitive "Mongoloid races" (such as the Huns, Avars or the Mongols themselves) in the wake of their various invasions of Europe throughout history. The book also claimed that "Mongolian imbecility" was partly the result of Ashkenazi Jews having interbred with the steppe tribe of the Khazars. Contents In ''The Mongol in Our Midst'', Crookshank argued that "Mongolian imbecility", thought at the time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Graham Crookshank
Francis Graham Crookshank (1873, Wimbledon, London, Wimbledon – 27 October 1933, Wimpole Street, Wimpole Street, London) was a British epidemiologist, and a medical and psychological writer, and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. Crookshank was educated at University College London, and trained in medicine at University College Hospital. His work attempted to combine medicine with the individual psychology of Alfred Adler, along with eugenics and Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche's philosophy of the will. His 123-page scientific racist publication ''The Mongol in our Midst'' (1924) was both popular and controversial in both England and the United States. In 1931, Crookshank published a "greatly enlarged and entirely rewritten" 524-page edition "with numerous illustrations," with responses to critics and additional theories and claims. That work associated the disorder now known as Down syndrome with the admixture of Asian with European "blood".Howells, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
