Eugenics and politics in Britain 1900–1914

Religion and society in industrial England. Church, chapel and social change, 1740–1914

C. R. SEARLE, Eugenics and politics in Britain 1900-1914, Leyden, Noordhof International Publishing, 1976, 8vo, pp. viii, 147, Dfl. 45.00. Francis Galton (1822-1911) coined the word "eugenics", which he defined as, "the study of agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally". Its objective was the increase of th...

Designing a brave new world: eugenics, politics, and fiction.

Aldous Huxley composed Brave New World in the context of the Depression and the eugenics movement in Britain. Today his novel is best known as satirical and predictive, but an additional interpretation emerges from Huxley's nonfiction writings in which the liberal hurmanist expressed some surprising opinions about eugenics, citizenship, and meritocracy. He felt that his role as an artist and pu...

Bodies Politic: Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900

Eugenics, sexual pedagogy and social change: constructing the responsible subject of governmentality in the Spanish Second Republic.

This study focuses on eugenics in Spain, and more specifically on the 'official' eugenics whose platform was the Primeras Jornadas Eugénicas Españolas (First Spanish Eugenic Days, FSED). The aim of this paper is to relate eugenics to 'governmentality' rather than to State politics alone and to 'Latin eugenics' rather than to 'mainline eugenics'. On the one hand, the FSED were largely centred on...

Culpability and compassion: lessons from the history of eugenics.