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THIS book should be welcome if only because it deals with an unusual subject. In both Britain and the United States much time, energy and financial support have been given to investigations of the mentally and physically ill and handicapped ; but little attention has been paid to well people, upon whom depend the leadership and work of the world. Yet knowledge of the normal is of great concern in medicine, education, business and government. This report is based chiefly upon the study of selected Harvard undergraduates, but groups of men in the armed forces and in civilian life have been investigated as well. Selection of college students was made on the basis of all-round good adjustment, good health and academic success. The approach is clinical. Characteristics of normal young men are described from the points of view of medicine, physiology, anthropology, mental measurements, socio-economics and psychiatry.
What People Are
A Study of Normal Young Men. By Clark W. Heath., in collaboration with Lucien Brouha, Lewise W. Gregory, Carl C. Seltzer, Frederic L. Wells and William L. Woods. Pp. xvi + 141 + 4 plates. (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press ; London : Oxford University Press, 1946.) 11s. 6d. net.
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What People Are. Nature 161, 502 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161502c0
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