1869 GALTON, Sir Francis (1822 – 1911)
Hereditary genius.
Galton investigated the families of great men and suggested that genius was hereditary, and thus founded the science of Eugenics, although he did not coin the word until 1883 (see No. 230). Karl Pearson’s, The life, l…
GMN 226 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4408
1883 GALTON, Sir Francis (1822 – 1911)
Inquiries into human faculty and its development.
Galton, cousin of Charles Darwin, founded the science of Eugenics. In his important Inquiries he showed mathematically “the results of his experiments on the relations between the powers of visual imagery and of abstr…
GMN 230 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8330
1884 BELL, Alexander Graham (1847 – 1922)
Memoir upon the formation of a deaf variety of the human race.
Bell determined that deafness was an inheritable trait and that deaf individuals had a tendency to marry other deaf individuals. As a eugenicist Bell considered this a problem because he thought it risked the developm…
GMN 13063 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15315
1907 GALTON, Sir Francis (1822 – 1911)
Probability: The foundation of eugenics.
GMN 1709 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2524
1912 GODDARD, Henry Herbert (1866 – 1957)
The Kallikak family: A study in the heredity of feeble-mindedness.
When this book was published Goddard was Director of the Research Laboratory of the Training School at Vineland, New Jersey, for Feeble-minded Girls and Boys. Though this work drew wide attention to the problems of pe…
GMN 11535 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13734
1937 PRITCHER, Jacob Leon
A sex starved world.
A eugenic utopian fantasy, in which we accompany a doctor in his dream journey to the liberated land of Amor. Pritcher presents an impassioned argument for free universal health care, contraception, no-fault divorce, …
GMN 11797 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13999
1985 KEVLES, Daniel J. (1939 – )
In the name of eugenics: Genetics and the uses of human heredity.
GMN 10319 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12511
1988 PROCTOR, Robert N. (1954 – )
Racial hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis.
GMN 10228 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12418
1992 KEVLES, Daniel J. (1939 – ); HOOD, Leroy Edward (1938 – )
The code of codes: Scientific and social issues in the human genome project. Edited by Daniel J. Kevles and Leroy Hood.
Chapter 1. "Out of eugenics: The historical politics of the human genome" by D. J. Kevles. Chapter 2. "A history of the science and technology behind gene mapping and sequencing" by Horace Freeland Judson. Chapter 7. …
GMN 10400 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12593
1999 PERNICK, Martin S. (1948 – )
The black stork: Eugenics and the death of "defective" babies in American medicine and motion pictures since 1915.
GMN 10053 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12242
2005 ENGS, Ruth Clifford
The eugenics movement: An encyclopedia.
GMN 11594 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13793
2010 BASHFORD, Alison (1963 – ); LEVINE, Philippa Judith Amanda (1957 – )
The Oxford handbook of the history of eugenics. Edited by Alison Bashford and Philippa Levine.
GMN 7844 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10016
