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1." Davenport organized research "committees on the heredity of feeblemindedness, insanity, epilepsy, criminality, deaf mutism and eye defects."(29) One study published in the 1910 Journal of Genetics attempted to prove that "the `peculiar facial expressions recognized as Jewish' follow a simple..."

Source:  Dunne, Cara,Warren, Catherine. "Lethal autonomy: the malfunction of the informed consent mechanism within the context of prenatal diagnosis of genetic variants" Issues in Law & Medicine 14.2 Sept. 22 1998: 165

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2." Bull Hist Med 1979;53:184-203. [15.] Barrett AM. The extent of insanity and feeblemindedness and their causes in Michigan."

Source:  STERN, ALEXANDRA MINNA,MARKEL, HOWARD. "All Quiet on the Third Coast: Medical Inspections of Immigrants in Michigan" Public Health Reports 114.2 Mar. 1 1999: 178

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3." We've heard about will-power and moral fibre; about arrested development, shrivelled generative organs and enlarged hypothalamuses; about masturbatory insanity and spermotorrhea; about hereditary syphilis, moral degeneracy, disease and madness."

Source:  McKenna, Neil. "From limp wrist to long finger" New Statesman (1996) 129.4481 Apr. 10 2000: 14

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4." The Brock Committee perceived a clear issue beneath the conceptual fog, however: 'the point we wish to emphasise is that general terms such as "mental defect" and "feeble-mindedness" represent classes or groups of conditions, all of which exhibit..."

Source:  King, Desmond,Hansen, Randall. "Experts at work: state autonomy, social learning and eugenic sterilization in 1930s Britain" British Journal of Political Science 29.1 Jan. 1 1999: 77-80

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5." Alienists were particularly interested in intermediary states, on the borders of reason and madness, such as dreams, somnambulism, hallucinations, ecstasies, and neuroses."

Source:  Vatan, Florence. "The "Poet-Philosopher" and the "Physician-Philosopher": a Reading of Baudelaire's Prose Poem "Assommons les pauvres!"" Nineteenth-Century French Studies 33.1-2 Sept. 22 2004: 89-109

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6."... who "feels like Jeffrey Dahmer." The music drives the mania - high-pitched synthesizers aggravate his insanity, and punishing drum beats crumble the wall between reason and madness."

Source:  Runett, Rob. "Tricky's `Juxtapose' on path to decadence: Hip-Hop performer looks at struggle for good life in new album" Washington Times Sept. 16 1999: 2

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7." Given these conditions, it is not surprising that many women were driven to the edge of insanity, otherwise known as "prairie madness" ("The Farmer's Wife," 1888; Silverman, 1984)."

Source:  ROLLINGS-MAGNUSSON, SANDRA. "Canada's Most Wanted: Pioneer Women on the Western Prairies [*]" Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 37.2 May 1 2000: 223

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8." Mosgrave points out, first, that there is no evidence of insanity or proof of madness in anything Lady Audley has done (p. 377); and then, after Robert has declared..."

Source:  PETCH, SIMON. "Did Nike Say to `Just Do It" Studies in the Novel 32.1 Mar. 22 2000: 1

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9."... University of Massachusetts Press, 1988); Foucault, Surveiller et Punir: Naissance de la Prison (Paris: Gallimard, 1975); Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (New York: Pantheon Books, 1965); Peter Wagner, A Sociology of Modernity, Liberty and Discipline (London:..."

Source:  Eisenstadt, S. N. "Multiple Modernities" Daedalus 129.1 Jan. 1 2000: 1

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10." March Madness always seems to affect those around me, but I never quite understood the insanity."

Source:  Szadkowski, Joseph. "ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT;ROMING THE GALAXY" Washington Times Mar. 29 1999: 13

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11." The Madness of Epic: Reading Insanity from Homer to Statius."

Source:  King, Peter. "The Madness of Epic: Reading Insanity from Homer toStatius" Historian 62.4 June 22 2000: 919

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12." The parallels McCabe and Jordan try to draw between the boy's growing insanity and the madness of the cold war (the movie climaxes during the Cuban missile crisis) seem forced to me, because..."

Source:  Alleva, Richard. "Les Miserables" Commonweal 125.n11 June 5 1998: 17-19

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13." Those who have examined the Edmunds case have regarded her claim to a sexual relationship with Beard as further proof of her madness, depicting Edmunds as sexually frustrated and predisposed to insanity by her unfortunate family history, a woman so desperate..."

Source:  Ainsley, Jill Newton. ""Some mysterious agency": Women, Violent Crime, and the Insanity Acquittal in the Victorian Courtroom" Canadian Journal of History 35.1 Apr. 1 2000: 37

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14."... equipped to diagnose our madness rather than our insanity, and that as a society we are ill-fitted to valuing our mental health."

Source:  Ariaratnam, Suresh. "Mind, body & spirit titles: Suresh Ariaratnam of Books Etc selects the best new titles from publishers' lists" Bookseller .5154 Nov. 12 2004: 30-36

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15."... due to inflammatory mediators or a primary defect related to the presence of an abnormal CF transmembrane conductance regulator protein may also contribute to surfactant abnormalities."

Source:  Meyer, Keith C.,Sharma, Anuja,Brown, Raymond,Weatherly, Mark,Moya, Fernando R.,Lewandoski, June,Zimmerman, Jerry J. "Function and Composition of Pulmonary Surfactant and Surfactant-Derived Fatty Acid Profiles Are Altered in Young Adults With Cystic Fibrosis" Chest 118.1 July 1 2000: 164

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16."... of losing the only income they have, but in the long run, a mental health diagnosis will definitely promote the image of women on welfare as being feeble-minded."

Source:  Michaud, Jacinthe. "Feminist representation of women living on welfare: the case of workfare and the erosion of volunteer time *" Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 41.3 Aug. 1 2004: 267-291

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17." Psychological theorists have placed emphasis on death, the power of nature, and resulting neuroses (Malinowski 1965)."

Source:  McClenon, James. "Content Analysis of an Anomalous Memorate Collection: Testing Hypotheses Regarding Universal Features" Sociology of Religion 61.2 June 22 2000: 155

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18."... the problem of feeble-mindedness; and that since feeble-mindedness is in all probability transmitted in accordance with the Mendelian Law of heredity, the way is open for eugenic procedure which shall mean much for the future welfare..."

Source:  Wehmeyer, Michael,Bersani, Hank Jr.,Gagne, Ray. "Riding the Third Wave: Self-Determination and Self-Advocacy in the 21st Century" Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities 15.2 June 22 2000: 106

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19."... and a thallium-201 defect in 3 cases; ECG, echographic, and radionuclide imaging abnormalities in 4 cases; and echocardiographic and thallium-201 defect abnormalities in 3 cases."

Source:  Chapelon-Abric, Catherine,de Zuttere, Dominique,Duhaut, Pierre,Veyssier, Pierre,Wechsler, Bertrand,Huong, Du Le Thi,de Gennes, Christian,Papo, Thomas,Bletry, Olivier,Godeau, Pierre,Piette, Jean-Charles. "Cardiac sarcoidosis: a retrospective study of 41 cases" Medicine 83.6 Nov. 1 2004: 315-335

20."... operates in harmony with movie expediency and hyperbole at their most feebleminded, Hodges must brush aside his astute disclaimer and rise to the delirious emergency."

Source:  Arnold, Gary. "`Rules' fails to engage moviegoers" Washington Times Apr. 7 2000: 5

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21."... metabolic Thyroid, adrenal dysfunction Electrolyte abnormalities (potassium, phosphate) Defects in carbohydrate metabolism (McArdle disease, Tarui disease, glycogen storage disorders) Defects in lipid metabolism (carnitine palmityl transferase deficiency, carnitine deficiency states) Mitochondrial myopathies Malignant hyperthermia ..."

Source:  KAGEN, LAWRENCE J. "How to evaluate the patient who has muscle disease" Journal of Musculoskeletal Medicine 17.7 July 1 2000: 407

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22."... (eg, pulmonary edema), respiratory mechanical defects (eg, airways obstruction), or a diaphragmatic defect. [1] Acute dyspnea may be associated with a pulmonary and/or cardiac abnormality or disease."

Source:  BURKI, N. K. "Acute Dyspnea: Is the Cause Cardiac or Pulmonary--or Both?" Consultant 40.3 Mar. 1 2000: 542

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23." But perhaps it is no coincidence that in Faulkner's fiction the shabby remnants of a seemingly uncomplicated relationship with the natural world are to be found primarily among its least cultured inhabitants--the illiterate, inarticulate, and "feeble-minded." Uncultivated themselves, they cannot become cultivators."

Source:  IRMSCHER, CHRISTOPH,Behrens, Roy R. "Did Nike Say to `Just Do It" Mississippi Quarterly 52.3 June 22 1999: 511

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24." But perhaps it is no coincidence that in Faulkner's fiction the shabby remnants of a seemingly uncomplicated relationship with the natural world are to be found primarily among its least cultured inhabitants--the illiterate, inarticulate, and "feeble-minded." Uncultivated themselves, they cannot become cultivators."

Source:  IRMSCHER, CHRISTOPH,Behrens, Roy R. "Did Nike Say to `Just Do It" Mississippi Quarterly 52.3 June 22 1999: 511

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25." The Kallikak family: A study in the heredity of feeble-mindedness."

Source:  Wehmeyer, Michael L.,Patton, James R. "Mental Retardation in the 21st Century: Introduction to the Special Issue" Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities 15.2 June 22 2000: 66

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