Francis Graham Crookshank

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Francis Graham Crookshank (1873, Wimbledon – 27 October 1933, Wimpole Street) was a British epidemiologist, and a medical and psychological writer.

Crookshank was educated at University College London, and trained in medicine at University College Hospital.[1] He was an enthusiast for both the individual psychology of Alfred Adler and the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche.[2] His The Mongol in our Midst (1924) aroused publicity with its degenerationist fears about Down syndrome.[3]

He committed suicide in 1933,[2] dying at his house in Wimpole Street.[1]

Works

References

  1. 1 2 "Francis Graham Crookshank, M.D.". Journal of nervous and mental disease. 79: 122.
  2. 1 2 Thomson, Mathew (2006) Psychological subjects: identity, culture, and health in twentieth-century Britain, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0199287805, p. 86.
  3. Howells, John G. and Osborn, M. Livia (1984) A reference companion to the history of abnormal psychology, vol. 1, Greenwood Press, ISBN 0313242615, p. 217.
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