Francis Graham Crookshank (1873, Wimbledon – 27 October 1933, Wimpole Street, London) was a British epidemiologist, and a medical and psychological writer, and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.
Crookshank was educated at University College London and trained in medicine at University College Hospital.[1] His work attempted to combine medicine with the individual psychology of Alfred Adler, along with eugenics and Nietzsche's philosophy of the will.[2][3]
His 123-page scientific racist publication The Mongol in our Midst (1924) was both popular and controversial in both England and the United States. In 1931, Crookshank published a "greatly enlarged and entirely rewritten" 524-page edition "with numerous illustrations," with responses to critics and additional theories and claims.[4] That work incorrectly associated the disorder now known as Down syndrome with the admixture of Asian and European "blood".[5]
Crookshank died in 1933 at his house in Wimpole Street, Westminster, from suicide.[1][2]
- ^ a b "Francis Graham Crookshank, M.D". Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 79: 122. 1934. doi:10.1097/00005053-193401000-00086. S2CID 220554998.
- ^ a b Thomson, Mathew (2006) Psychological subjects: identity, culture, and health in twentieth-century Britain, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0199287805, p. 86.
- ^ Keevak, Michael (1 January 2011). Becoming yellow : a short history of racial thinking. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691140315. OCLC 713342093.
- ^ Crookshank, Francis (1931). The Mongol in Our Midst: A Study of Man and His Three Faces. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.
- ^ 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.