Shameful sciences : Eugenics and Social Darwinism in American psychology / Oksana Yakushko.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yakushko, Oksana F., 1973-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eugenics--United States--History--20th century.

Eugenics.

Psychology--United States--History--20th century.

Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2026.

Summary:

Shameful Sciences documents varied forms of problematic biased theorizing influencing early Western and American psychology.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: "In Science We [Must Blindly] Trust," or Science and Totalitarianism

Scientism and the Commandment to "Never Question Science"

Chapter 2: The Enlightenment Sciences and the Politics of Control

Darwinism, Social Darwinism, and the Arguments of Fitness and Control

Chapter 3: Classic Eugenics and the Emergence of Eugenic Psychology

Eugenic Fantasies and Eugenic Sciences

Chapter 4: American Psychology in Service of American Eugenics

American Psychological Association and Eugenics

Eugenic Utopias in American Psychology

American Eugenics and the Popularization of American Psychology as Science

The Eugenic Economics and Why American Psychology Offered No Therapy (or Treatment)

Keeping Women in Their Evolutionary Lane: The American Psychology Contributions

Race Psychology, Race Suicide, and the American Psychology of Racial Segregation

From Race Psychology to Vocational Psychology: Keeping the "Natural Order" in Education and the Workplace

Unfit Emotions and Behavioral Scientific Warnings

Eugenics and Imperialism

The Science of Sexual Purity

The Dangers of Self-Abuse or the Eugenic Sciences of Chastity

Same-Sex Dangers to Evolution: A Eugenicist Guide

Castration, Sterilization, and Desexualization of the Unfit

American Psychological Guides for Parents

Eugenic Psychologies on Disabilities

Psychological Prediction and Control of the Imbeciles, Idiots, the Morons, and the Feeble-Minded

Bad Behaviors that Lead to Evolutionary Collapse

Chapter 5: Eugenic Studies by American Psychologists

The Kallikak Study

The Beauty and Ugliness in the American Eugenic Psychology

The Army Mental Tests

The Eugenic Origins of American Behaviorism

Chapter 6: Eugenic Psychology and the Politics of Sciences

The Funding of American Psychology Eugenics

Eugenics as an "Objective" Science: Its Empirical Methods and Epistemological Practices

Chapter 7: Contemporary Eugenic American Psychology

Conclusion

References

Index

Half Title

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Bloomsbury, viewed June 15, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Yakushko, Oksana Shameful Sciences

ISBN:

9798881864064

OCLC:

1579270127

Access Restriction:

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