Eugenics arose at a crucial juncture in terms of demography (with the declining birth rate) and morbidity (with the shift to chronic diseases) in the later nineteenth century. These, in turn, shaped public measures in the early twentieth century. This chapter will examine eugenic concepts of population health, and how these entered public health concepts and practices. It will review the theoretical writings of Galton in Britain, and Schallmayer and Ploetz in Germany. Their theoretical writings provided fundamental concepts of how population health could be sustained in the emergent welfare state. Eugenics became a norm embedded in public health concepts, structures and interventions. The chapter will consider eugenic ideals and how these w...
Eugenics is a science that aims to promote and develop the innate qualities of the human species usi...
The main concern of the first eugenists, such as Karl Pearson and Walter Weldon of University Colleg...
When we come across the word "eugenics" it is impossible to avoid thinking of Hitler's eugenics and ...
The concept of eugenics, which was introduced to the literature by Galton in the 1880s, occupied an ...
During the 1910s-1930s eugenics movement, communications zipped between the German and American euge...
During the 1920s, the world-wide eugenics movement reached a peak level of popularity. Historians ha...
Introducing a special issue of the journal, the article summarizes the half-century long debate on e...
Eugenics is the science of breeding well , or rather , the science of improving the inborn qualiti...
The scientific origins and the development of eugenic and racial theoriesformulated by physicians, j...
Eugenics is not a nineteenth-century invention. You can talk about it since the appearance of the fi...
Although historians have for some time been integrating sociological concepts into their work on eug...
Eugenics - or 'the cultivation of a race' - is a concept dating from the latter part of the 19th cen...
In the UK, the period after the Second World War is generally associated with the reformist ideas wh...
This study examines writings of eugenics advocates to establish their motivations. Chapter one intro...
This paper addresses the topic of the intellectual and academic foundations of the eugenics movement...
Eugenics is a science that aims to promote and develop the innate qualities of the human species usi...
The main concern of the first eugenists, such as Karl Pearson and Walter Weldon of University Colleg...
When we come across the word "eugenics" it is impossible to avoid thinking of Hitler's eugenics and ...
The concept of eugenics, which was introduced to the literature by Galton in the 1880s, occupied an ...
During the 1910s-1930s eugenics movement, communications zipped between the German and American euge...
During the 1920s, the world-wide eugenics movement reached a peak level of popularity. Historians ha...
Introducing a special issue of the journal, the article summarizes the half-century long debate on e...
Eugenics is the science of breeding well , or rather , the science of improving the inborn qualiti...
The scientific origins and the development of eugenic and racial theoriesformulated by physicians, j...
Eugenics is not a nineteenth-century invention. You can talk about it since the appearance of the fi...
Although historians have for some time been integrating sociological concepts into their work on eug...
Eugenics - or 'the cultivation of a race' - is a concept dating from the latter part of the 19th cen...
In the UK, the period after the Second World War is generally associated with the reformist ideas wh...
This study examines writings of eugenics advocates to establish their motivations. Chapter one intro...
This paper addresses the topic of the intellectual and academic foundations of the eugenics movement...
Eugenics is a science that aims to promote and develop the innate qualities of the human species usi...
The main concern of the first eugenists, such as Karl Pearson and Walter Weldon of University Colleg...
When we come across the word "eugenics" it is impossible to avoid thinking of Hitler's eugenics and ...