A History of British Eugenics since 1865: From Francis Galton to Designer Babies

Preface
Praise for A History of British Eugenics since 1865
Contents
About the Author
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction
2 Francis Galton and the Early Days of Eugenics
	Galton’s Personal Background
	Heredity and the Early Conception of Eugenics
	The Ideology of Eugenics
	Eugenics and Politics
	Biometry
	Galton’s Efforts to Promulgate Eugenics
	The Eugenics Record Office and the Eugenics Laboratory
	Popular Eugenics
	Social Hygiene and Social Darwinism
	Galton’s Ideal Society
	Progressive and Reactionary Eugenics
	German and American Eugenics
	The Case for Sterilization and Segregation
	Interaction with Americans
	The Effects of Galton’s Eugenics
	Conclusion
3 The Galton Laboratory Until 1945
	The Eugenics Record Office
	Karl Pearson Takes Charge
	The Work of the Eugenics Laboratory
	Pearson and the Eugenics Education Society
	The Galton and Biometric Laboratories
	The First World War
	Mendelism and Biometry
	Eugenics and Society
	Research of the 1920s
	Intelligence
	Heredity and Social Class
	Eugenics and Race
	Bias in the Research
	Pearson Retires
	Fisher and the Serological Laboratory
	Anthropological Work
	Conclusion
4 The Eugenics Society Until 1945
	The Eugenics Education Society Is Founded
	Early Concerns
	Class and the Political Basis of the Society
	The First International Eugenics Congress
	Social Hygiene
	The First World War
	Developments of the Early 1920s
	A Change of Name and New Policies
	Leonard Darwin Steps Down
	Mental Deficiency and ‘Voluntary’ Sterilization
	The Outreach to the Labour Movement
	The Policies of the Late 1930s
	The Menace of Eugenics
	The Second World War and the Beveridge Report
	Conclusion
5 Eugenics Between 1945 and 1990
	The Eugenics Society in the Late 1940s
	Global Population Concerns and Controversial Issues
	A Crisis of Eugenics?
	A New Organizational Structure
	The Quarrel Over Abortion
	The Bulletin of the Eugenics Society
	Three Important Symposia
	Conclusion
6 Eugenics and New Technologies of Reproduction
	Early Artificial Insemination and Eutelegenesis
	Post-War Developments on Artificial Insemination
	In Vitro Fertilization
	Genetic Modification and Gene Therapy
	Prenatal Diagnosis
	Ectogenesis and Eutelegenesis
	Prenatal Sex Selection
	Cloning
	The New Eugenics and the Old
	Reproductive Choice
	The Underclass and Immigrants
	The Politics of Genetics
	‘Reform’ Eugenics and Transhumanism
	Left-Wing and Right-Wing Eugenics in the Modern Age
	The Metamorphosis of Eugenics
	Conclusion
7 Conclusion
Appendix
Glossary
Bibliography
Index