Eugenics, Mendelism, and Biometry 1

Mending Mendelism

Teaching .Mendelism

regor Mendel is rightly credited as being the "father of modern " He presented the results of his pea at a of his local natural history society in two lectures 1865. His paper was published in the proceedings of the society the next year. From his breeding experiments with the edible pea, he recog­ nized the phenomena of what we call dominance and recessiveness, segregation of assortment of dif...

Chapter 1 Genetics , Politics and Society 1 . 1 Eugenics

Francis Galton coined the word eugenics in his 1883 book Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development . The term itself derives from the Greek prefix eu (eu) meaning good or well and the Greek word genos (genosv ) meaning race, kind or stock. In 1904, Galton gave a presentation to the Sociological Society in London about eugenics. His presentation, along with invited public commentary, appe...

Eugenics and modern biology: critiques of eugenics, 1910-1945.

Eugenics in most western countries in the first four decades of the 20th century was based on the idea that genes control most human phenotypic traits, everything from physical features such as polydactyly and eye colour to physiological conditions such as the A-B-O blood groups to mental and personality traits such as "feeblemindedness," alcoholism and pauperism. In assessing the development o...

Biometry

The Textbook of Contraceptive Practice is a current overview of population control. The authors are John Peel, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Hull and Malcolm Potts, Director of Medical Studies, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Individual chapters cover the various methods: the oral contraceptives, intrauterine devices, withdrawal, diaphragm, spermicides, safe period, sterilizatio...