Epilepsy Heredity Research
by American Philosophical Society
Title
Epilepsy Heredity Research
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American Philosophical Society
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Photograph - Photograph
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Epilepsy heredity research. Heredity chart for patients at the New Jersey State Village for Epileptics (founded 1898) at Skillman, New Jersey, USA. The chart shows options for recording a variety of perceived mental and physical defects. The chart was published by the New Jersey Training School Department of Research, founded in 1906. This chart is from the Eugenics Record Office (founded 1910), Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA. Eugenics is the controversial practice of selectively improving the genetics of human populations. One of the aims of eugenicists in this period was to encourage forced sterilisation of those with conditions such as epilepsy.
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