MedHum1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Cesare Lombroso, Mongolian Idiocy, Fibrous Joint
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Stephen jay gould, the mismeasure of man, pp. Bring drafts to your section on tuesday 1/9. Keywords (define in your own words): atavism features that come from an ancestor in the past that show up again in the present after a long time of having disappeared. These features lie dormant for a long time, then appear again: anatomical stigmata physical features that give somebody the bad, disgraceful reputation of being associated with a certain quality. These anatomical traits have negative stigma surrounding them. Questions: in what ways were atavistic criminals considered similar to non-western, non-white. Lombroso said that criminality is normal behavior among inferior people, aka savages. They have tattoos and a high pain tolerance, and aren"t sensitive to physical sensations. They have a flat, trilobed nose that looks like a monkey"s. They avoid hard, long work: give three examples of how lombroso read the body for signs of criminality. Lombroso listed traits, anatomical stigmata, that signaled criminality.
