PUBLICATIONS:
Books and articles:
Measuring Minds: Henry Herbert Goddard and the Origins
of American Intelligence Testing (Cambridge University
Press, 1998).
Editor and Introduction, Recycling the Past: Popular
Uses of American History (University of Pennsylvania
Press, 1978).
"Biblical Biology: American Protestant Social Reformers
and the Early Eugenics Movement." Science in Context, 11:
3-4 (Fall and Winter 1998), pp. 511-525.
"The Bell Curve and the Shape of History." Journal
of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 33 (Spring
1997), pp. 135-139.
"Henry Herbert Goddard," in Encyclopedia of Psychology (New
York: Oxford University Press and American Psychological
Association, forthcoming).
"Henry Herbert Goddard," in John Garraty, ed., American
National Biography (New York: Oxford University
Press and American Council of Learned Societies, 1999),
Vol. 9, pp. 133-135.
"On Interpreting Photographs, Faces, and the Past." American
Psychologist, 43 (September 1988), pp. 743-744.
"Education, Evangelism, and the Origins of Clinical
Psychology: The Child Study Legacy." Journal of the
History of the Behavioral Sciences, 24 (April 1988),
pp. l52-l65.
"The Debate over Diagnosis: Henry Herbert Goddard and
the Medical Acceptance of Intelligence Testing." In Michael
Sokal, ed., Psychological Testing and American Society,
1890-1930 (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press,
1987; paperback, 1990).
Book Reviews:
Psychologists on the March: Science, Practice, and
Professional Identity in America, 1929-1969 by
James Capshew. In Bulletin of the History of Medicine, forthcoming.
The Rhetoric of Eugenics in Anglo-American Thought by
Marouf A. Hasian, Jr. and Controlling Human Heredity,
1865 to the Present by Diane B. Paul. In Journal
of the History of Biology, 31:2 (Summer 1998): 292-295.
The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of 'Defective'
Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures since
1915 by Martin S. Pernick. In Bulletin of the
History of Medicine, 17:4 (Winter 1997), pp. 728-729.
Deaf History Unveiled: Interpretations from the New
Scholarship, ed. by John Vickrey Van Cleve. In American
Studies, 38 (Spring 1997), pp. 178-180.
Abandoned to their Fate: Social Policy and Practice
Toward Severely Retarded People in America, 1820-1920 by
Philip M. Ferguson. In American Historical Review,
101 (February 1996), pp. 241-242.
Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation
in the United States by James Trent, Jr. In Journal
of American History, 82 (June 1995), pp. 235-236.
"Cold War Social Science" [Review of Science of Coercion:
Communication Research and Psychological Warfare, 1945-1960 by
Christopher Simpson]. In Science, 264 (May 13,
1994), pp. 992-993.
The Wellborn Science: Eugenics in Germany, France,
Brazil, and Russia, ed. by Mark Adams. In Journal
of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 29 (April
1993), pp. 165-167.
The Surgical Solution: A History of Involuntary Sterilization
in the United States by Philip R. Reilly. In Transactions
and Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia,
14:1 (1992), pp. 111-113.
White Trash: The Eugenic Family Studies, 1877-1919,
ed. by Nicole Hahn Rafter. In American Studies International,
30:2 (October 1992), pp. 94-95.
Schools as Sorters: Lewis M. Terman, Applied Psychology,
and the Intelligence Testing Movement, 1890-1930 by
Paul Chapman; and Lewis M. Terman: Pioneer in Educational
Testing by Henry Minton. In Isis (International
Review of the History of Science and its Cultural Influences),
82 (June 199l), pp. 415-416.
"Burt Again" [Review of The Burt Affair by Robert
Joynston]. In Science (May 18, 1990), pp. 884-886.
Homes for the Mad: Life Inside Two Nineteenth-Century
Asylums by Ellen Dwyer. In Journal of the History
of the Behavioral Sciences, 25 (April 1989), pp.
189-190.
Before Freud: Neurasthenia and the American Medical
Community by F.G. Gosling. In Journal of American
History, 75 (December 1988), pp. 968-969.
Minds Made Feeble: The Myth and Legacy of the Kallikaks by
J. David Smith. In Psychological Record, 36 (Winter
1986), pp. 131-132.
"The Contours of a Debate" [Review of The Intelligence
Men: Makers of the IQ Controversy by Raymond Fancher].
In Science (January 10, 1986), p. l64.
Current Work in Progress: A book tentatively
entitled "The Heredity-Environment Debates: Scientific
Proofs and Popular Persuasion, 1918-1945."
