Showing posts with label eugenics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eugenics. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Long Island Bio. Assn.

From Carlson's The Unfit, page 198 (footnote 45): The Long Island Biological Association, associated with the Eugenics Station and the Carnegie Institution, "was often used to fund summer institutes and education programs for school children." Now merged into the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

David Starr Jordan

course on "bionics" in early 20th-century - pioneer of liberal arts education - eugenics

HJ Muller

Professor at UT; geneticist and positive eugenicist
Man's Future Birthright
The World View of Moderns

Friday, May 30, 2008

Bibliographic notes: Eugenics

Bannister, Robert C, Social Darwinism: Science and Myth in Anglo-American Social Thought (1984)
Chamberlin and Gilman, eds, Degeneration: The Dark Side of Progress (1985)
Haller, Eugenics: Hereditarian Attitudes in American Thought
Ludmerer, Genetics and American Society
Pickens, Eugenics and the Progressives
Selden, Steven. Inheriting Shame: The Story of Eugenics and Racism in America (1999).
Selden, Steven. All other cites.