Eugenics (historical)

Laughlin, Harry H. 1923. The Second International Exhibition of Eugenics Held September 22 to October 22, 1921, in Connection with the Second International Congress of Eugenics in the American Museum of Natural History, New York (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins Company), page 15.

 

Eugenics includes a wide range of programmes to manage the hereditary contribution of individuals to the next general. Some approaches focused on individuals and pedigrees. Others focused on statistics and census information.

 

Eugenics programmes always were controversial in the places and periods they were proposed. They were widely understood to be overtly and covertly discriminatory. Eugenics campaigns didn’t need science, but some deployed science to make their arguments seem stronger (and some scientists took central roles in these campaigns because they thought science would improve the campaigns). The relationship between eugenics and scientists is a subject of significant research.

 

Karl Pearson (1907) A First Study of the Statistics of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
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Karl Pearson and the History of Eugenics at UCL

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Cyril Burt (1955) ‘The Meaning and Assessment of Intelligence’, The Eugenics Review, 47(2), pp. 81-91.
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Cyril Burt in the History of Eugenics at UCL

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John Maynard Smith. 1937. Some economic consequences of a declining population, published in Eugenics Review 29(1): 13-17.
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John Maynard Keynes in the History of Eugenics

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J.W. Brown, Major Greenwood, and Frances Wood (1920) The Fertility of the English Middle Classes. A Statistical Study. Eugenics Review 12(3): 158-211.
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Major Greenwood in the History of Eugenics

What was the research and advocacy that took place by personnel associated with UCL and its sister institutions? Zydon Patel investigates J.W. Brown, Major Greenwood, and Frances Wood (1920) The Fertility of the English Middle […]

Leonard Darwin (1928) What is Eugenics?
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Leonard Darwin in the History of Eugenics

What was the research and advocacy that took place by personnel associated with UCL and other London-based institutions? Su Cheng investigates Leonard Darwin’s (1928) What is Eugenics? Part A: Investigating the Author Two of the most […]

Flinders Petrie. 1907. Janus in Modern Life.
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Flinders Petrie and History of Eugenics at UCL

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GALT364 on display in “We Are Not Alone” exhibition at Wiener Holocaust Library, September 2021. Close-up.
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Albert Edward Wiggam 1927 Shall I Marry This Man?
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Albert Edward Wiggam’s 1927 “Shall I Marry This Man?”

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