Problems in eugenics
Subtitle: papers communicated to the first International Eugenics Congress, held at the University of London, July 24th to 30th, 1912
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks
Publisher: Eugenics Education Society
Published: 1912
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Eugenics; Congresses; Medical Genetics
Notes: English, French, German or Italian.

Vol. 2 has subtitle: Report of proceedings of the first International Eugenics Congress.

Includes index.

Reproduction of the original from the London School of Economics and Political Science Library.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Vol. 1: Variation and heredity in man / G. Sergi; title: On the increase of stature in certain European populations / Soren Hansen; title: The so-called laws of heredity in man / V. Guiffrida-Ruggeri; title: The inheritance of fecundity / Raymond Pearl; title: Ethnic psychology and the science of eugenics / Enrico Morselli; title: The inheritance of epilepsy / David F. Weeks; title: The influence of parental age on the psycho-physiological characters of children / Antonio Marro; title: Genetics and eugenics / R.C. Punnett; title: Report on the practical organisation of eugenic action / Louis Querton; title: Marriage laws and customs / C.B. Davenport; title: Eugenics selection and the origin of defects / Frédéric Houssay; title: General considerations upon "education before procreation" / Adolphe Pinard. Preliminary report to The First International Eugenics Congress of the Committee of the Eugenics Section, American Breeders' Association to study and report as to the best practical means for cutting off the defective germ-plasm in the human population / Bleecker Van Wagenen; title: Eugenics and the new social consciousness / Samuel G. Smith. Vol. 2: Practicable eugenics in education / F.C.S. Schiller; title: The psycho-physical elite, and the economic elite / Achille Loria; title: The cause of the inferiority of physical and mental characters in the lower social classes / Alfredo Niceforo; title: The fertility of marriages according to profession and social position / Lucien March; title: Eugenics and militarism / Vernon L. Kellogg; title: Eugenics in party organization / Roberto Michels; title: The influence of race on history / W.C.D. and C.D. Whetham; title: Some interrelations between eugenics and historical research / Adams Woods; title: The contributions of demography to eugenics / Corrado Gini; title: Maternity statistics of the state of Rhode Island, state census of 1905 / Frederick L. Hoffman; title: On the prophylaxis of hereditary syphilis and its eugenic effect / Dr. Hallopeau; title: The effect of alcohol on the germ-plasm / Alfred Mjöen; title: Alcoholism and degeneracy : statistics from the central office for the management of the insane of Paris and the Department of the Seine from 1867 to 1912 / Dr. Magnan and Dr. Fillassier; title: Eugenics and obstetrics / Agnes Bluhm; title: The place of eugenics in the medical curriculum / H.E. Jordan; title: The history of a healthy sane family, showing longevity, in Catalonia / Valenti y Vivo; title: Heredity and eugenics in relation to insanity / F.W. Mott; title: Some remarks on backward children / Raoul Dupuy.