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Professor Joe Cain

UCL Professor of History and Philosophy of Biology

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Month: February 2022

Lionel Penrose 1934 Influence of Heredity on Disease
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Reception of Lionel Penrose’s Study on “Mental Deficiency” in 1930s Britain

This essay examines the reception by the medical and eugenic communities of Lionel Penrose’s research on “mental deficiency” in the 1930s. In 1928 Lionel Penrose began work at the Royal Eastern Counties Institution in Colchester, […]

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