Research Catalog

Title

A plan for the study of man, with reference to bills to establish a laboratory for the study of the criminal, pauper, and defective classes, with a bibliography of child study.

Author

MacDonald, Arthur, 1856-1936

Publication

Washington, Govt. Print Off., 1902.

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Details

Description

166 pages illustrations; 23 cm

Series Statement

• [U.S.] 57th Cong., 1st sess. Senate. Doc. 400
• United States. 57th Congress, 1st session, 1902. Senate. Document ; no. 81.

Subject

• Child development
• Child psychology
• Child study > Bibliography
• Crime
• Criminals
• Child Development
• Psychology, Child
• Child Behavior
• criminals
• Child development
• Child psychology
• Crime
• Criminals

Genre/Form

• Bibliographies
• Bibliografie.

Note

• Presented by Mr. Clapp. Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and orderd printed, June 9, 1902. Ordered to be reprinted with additional matter, June 16, 1902. Ordered to be reprinted, June 28, 1902.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-157) and index.

Contents

Nature of bills -- Study of man -- The study of children -- Instruments of precision -- Preliminary training for study in a psycho-physical laboratory -- Susceptibility to disease and physical development in college women -- Measurements of Chattanooga children -- Measurements of girls in private schools and of university students -- Types of children in Germany -- Growth and sociological conditions -- Hypnotism -- Traumatic hypnotism (case of) -- Surgical operations during hypnotic sleep -- The power of suggestion -- Study of the hypnotism state -- Pedagogic hypnotism -- Some recent results from the study of man -- CRIMINOLOGY. Scientific method -- Prison discipline -- Application of scientific method -- Instruction in criminology -- Criminals not so abnormal -- Crime not a disease -- Freedom of criminals' will -- Physiology of the criminal's brain -- Measurements of emotion -- Moral obtuseness -- Bertillon system of measurement -- Criminal aristocracy, or the Mafia -- Criminal suggestion -- Education and crime -- Teaching of practical morality -- Conclusions as to criminal man -- Alcoholism -- Total abstinence -- Social pathology and education -- Crime and its punishment -- Pure murder (case of) -- Man from the scientific point of view -- Bibliography of child study -- More recent literature on child study -- Appendix : Names of Senators and Representatives favoring plan ; Opinions of scientific journals ; Indorsements of societies, etc. ; Specialists writing letters in favor of laboratory, etc.

OCLC

• ocm13163415
• 13163415
• SCSB-339764

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library