Demography and degeneration: eugenics and the declining birthrate in twentieth-century Britain

Charles Benedict Davenport (1866-1944)

Charles Benedict Davenport [5] was an early twentieth-century experimental zoologist. Davenport founded both the Station for Experimental Evolution and the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor in New York. Though he was a accomplished as a statistician and as a scientist, Davenport?s also has a legacy as the scientific leader of the eugenics movement [6] in the US. Eugenics, an attempt ...

[Biopower and eugenics: rethinking the intrusion of power into sexuality in the twentieth century].

Muslim Intellectuals and the Perennial Philosophy in the Twentieth Century

This paper will examine how Muslim intellectuals, as a result of their attachment to the doctrine of Divine Unity (taw¤hīd), the Quran, Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad, and the doctrines and methods of Sufism, were largely responsible for the restating of the perennial philosophy in the West in the twentieth century. The article consists of four sections: an introduction to the term 'philosophia...

Media Reviews

The Eugenics Society digital archive, part of 'Codebreakers: makers of modern genetics', The Wellcome Library, London. With relatively little fanfare, the Wellcome Library in London has digitised a number of its significant collections relating to the history of genetics. For historians of science, this is a tremendous resource that is currently matched by only a few other libraries or archives...

Human genetics in troubled times and places

The development of human genetics world-wide during the twentieth century, especially across Europe, has occurred against a background of repeated catastrophes, including two world wars and the ideological problems and repression posed by Nazism and Communism. The published scientific literature gives few hints of these problems and there is a danger that they will be forgotten. The First World...