The Kallikak Family: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Kallikak Family by Henry H. Goddard: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 7 original MP3 tracks, 2:23:08 running time and a link to listen.
The Kallikak Family, credited to Henry H. Goddard, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of The Kallikak Family by Henry H. Goddard. Read in English by Larry Wilson; Lynne Thompson; TriciaG; Kalynda; Matthew Westra The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness, written by famous American psychologist and eugenicist Henry H. Goddard, is a famous but controversial extended case study following the Kallikak family (a pseudonym from the Greek words Kallos "beauty" and Kakos "bad") for the inheritance of "feeble-mindedness," a general category referring to a variety of mental disabilities including mental disabilities, learning disabilities, and mental illness. Goddard concluded that a variety of mental traits were hereditary and society should limit reproduction by people possessing these traits, which in turn helped to spur on the destructive eugenics movement, especially in the United States. Note: For the charts printed in Chapter II and referred to throughout the novel, please refer to a visual copy of the book. - Summary by Mary Kay and Wikipedia
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Kallikak Family
- Author credits: Henry H. Goddard
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 7
- Listed recording duration: 2:23:08
Catalogue topics
- family
- eugenics
- genetics
- famous
- reproduction
- intelligence
- controversy
- rights
Track guide
- 00 - Dedication and Preface — 7:16
- 01 - Chapter I: The Story of Deborah — 21:00
- 02 - Chapter II: The Data and the Charts — 30:33
- 03 - Chapter III: What it Means — 27:56
- 04 - Chapter IV: Further Facts about the Kallikak Family, Part 1 — 15:45
- 05 - Chapter IV: Further Facts about the Kallikak Family, Part 2 — 26:49
- 06 - Chapter V: What is to be Done? — 13:49
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