A decade of progress in eugenics
Subtitle: scientific papers
By: Committee on Publication, Harry F. Perkins, chairman
Contributors: Perkins, Henry Farnham, 1877-
Publisher: Williams & Wilkins
Published: 1934
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 531
Subjects: Eugenics; Congresses; Human reproduction; Moral and ethical aspects; Medical genetics
Notes: Contains errata slip.

Bibliography at end of some of the chapters.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : historical background of the third International Congress of Eugenics / Harry H. Laughlin; title: Presidential address : the development of eugenics / Charles B. Davenport; title: Message to the International Congress of Eugenics / Leonard Darwin; title: Response to president's address / Corrado Gini; title: Birth selection versus birth control / Henry Fairfield Osborn; title: On the need of checking in anthropometry / Charles B. Davenport; title: Plan for obtaining an international technique in physical anthropology / R. Ruggles Gates; title: Standardizing measurements of the living / Richard H. Post; title: The unification of the anthropological type of Italians and its eugenical effects (English abstract) / Marcello Boldrini; title: Bloodgroups in relation to race in the Dutch East Indies / H.J.T. Bijlmer; title: Stability of the Seashore Measures of Musical Talent as shown by retests / Hazel Stanton; title: The handwriting of introverts and extraverts / June E. Downey; title: Control of immigration / D.F. Ramos; title: The Eurasian community as a eugenic problem / Henry E. Roseboom and Cedric Dover; title: Volkstumsverbreitung und ihre Ursachen = Racial distribution and its causes / Wilhelm Pessler; title: Harmonic types among Western European crania / Ruth S. Wallis; title: Virginia's effort to preserve racial integrity / W.A. Plecker; title: The American people of Polish origin in Texas / Boleslaw Rosinski; title: The effect of migration on the natural increase of the Negro / S.J. Holmes; title: Assortative mating for color in the American Negro / Irene Taeuber; title: Eugenics and education / G.P. Frets; title: The dominance of economics over eugenics / H.J. Muller; title: The Soong family - an example of great ability in the common man / Rudolf M. Binder; title: Types of data available for eugenics research in the United States / Frank Lorimer; title: The need of a course in medical genetics in the medical curriculum / Madge T. Macklin; title: Special capacities of American Indians / W. Carson Ryan Jr.; title: Heredity and environment - their relative roles in the development of East Tennessee mountain children / Lester R. Wheeler; title: Some aspects of instruction in eugenics / Otis W. Caldwell; title: The inadequacy of census data for certain eugenic investigations / Charles C. Grove; title: Race and family in the history of the American institutions / Wilhelmine E. Key; title: Contributory factors in eugenics in a rural state / H.F. Perkins; title: Is the abnormal to become normal? / Lena K. Sadler; title: Selective sterilization for race culture / Theodore R. Robie; title: Marriage counselling / Paul Popenoe; title: Health declaration before marriage / Jon A. Mjøen; title: Report of the Committee for the Study of the Eugenic and Dysgenic Effects of War / Corrado Gini; title: Is war dysgenic? / H.R. Hunt; title: The genetic effects of war in Hungary / Theodore Szel; title: A study of the causes of prostitution, especially concerning hereditary factors / Tage Kemp; title: Il sordomutismo nel campo eugenetico e sociale = Deaf-mutism in relation to eugenics and society / Giulio Ferreri; title: Eugenic, cacogenic and socially inadequate tendencies in our population / J.H. Landman; title: Pennsylvania's problem in eradicating foci of mental defect / Florentine Hackbusch; title: Considerations on the social factors in mental development / Florence Powdermaker; title: The physical factors in race survival / C.G. Campbell; title: Hereditary deforming chondrodysplasia / Albert Ehrenfried; title: Selective elimination as a factor in increasing the immunity of populations / Charles Herrman; title: The inheritance of allergy with special reference to migraine / Mildred H. Richards and Ray M. Balyeat; title: Human infertility. Endocrine aspects / Allan Winter Rowe; title: Ovarian and pituitary modifications resulting from sterility induced by various means / Michael F. Guyer; title: Is heredity a causative factor in the manic-depressive psychoses? / Horatio Pollock, Benjamin Malzberg and Raymond G. Fuller; title: Child hygiene in human ecology / E. Blanche Sterling; title: Measures to encourage the fertility of the gifted / J. Sanders; title: The reduction of the fecundity of the socially inadequate / Sir Bernard Mallet; title: A discussion of Sir Bernard Mallet's paper on "The reduction of the fecundity of the socially inadequate" / E.S. Gosney; title: Contra-selection in England / Cora B. Hodson; title: Mesures à envisager pour favoriser la fécondité des individus les mieux doués = Proposed measures for the encouragement of fecundity of the best endowed individuals / Georges Schreiber; title: "Aristogenics" / C. Ward Crampton; title: Birth rates of coeducational graduates / Caroline H. Robinson; title: Evidence of the rapidly decreasing birth rate in families in which highly intelligent children occur / Margaret V. Cobb; title: Genetics of the human mind / C.C. Hurst; title: Heredity in psychoses / G.P. Frets; title: Remarks on the explanation of heterosis / Corrado Gini; title: Some results of a family history study / Morris Steggerda; title: Sex-ratio of new born infants as an index of vitality / V. Bunak; title: Bloodgroups and inbreeding / M.A. van Herwerden; title: Is eugenics half-baked? / Robert Cook; title: Sex differences in the expression of autosomal genes affecting human dentition / F.B. Hutt; title: The inheritance of mental test abilities / Roswell H. Johnson; title: A note on inherited variations and fitness problems / William W. Graves; title: Merging of ancestral lines / Anita Newcomb McGee.