Applied Eugenics

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Author

Johnson, Roswell H. (Roswell Hill), 1877-1967

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Produced by Audrey Longhurst, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images from the Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History, Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University)

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English

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HQ: Social sciences: The family, Marriage, Sex and Gender

Subject

Eugenics

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eBook-No.

19560

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19560

Release Date

October 17, 2006

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.APPLIED EUGENICS — BY
2. 2.PAUL POPENOE — EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL OF HEREDITY (ORGAN OF THE AMERICAN GENETIC ASSOCIATION), WASHINGTON, D. C. — AND — ROSWELL HILL JOHNSON PROFESSOR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURG
3. 3.PREFACE
4. 4.TABLE OF CONTENTS
5. 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
6. 6.INTRODUCTION
7. 7.APPLIED EUGENICS
8. 8.CHAPTER I — NATURE OR NURTURE?
9. 9.CHAPTER II — MODIFICATION OF THE GERM-PLASM
10. 10.CHAPTER III — DIFFERENCES AMONG MEN
11. 11.CHAPTER IV — THE INHERITANCE OF MENTAL CAPACITIES
12. 12.CHAPTER V — THE LAWS OF HEREDITY
13. 13.CHAPTER VI — NATURAL SELECTION
14. 14.CHAPTER VII — ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF THE EUGENICS MOVEMENT
15. 15.CHAPTER VIII — DESIRABILITY OF RESTRICTIVE EUGENICS — "MONGOLIAN" DEFICIENCY
16. 16.CHAPTER IX — THE DYSGENIC CLASSES
17. 17.CHAPTER X — METHODS OF RESTRICTION
18. 18.CHAPTER XI — THE IMPROVEMENT OF SEXUAL SELECTION
19. 19.CHAPTER XII — INCREASING THE MARRIAGE RATE OF THE SUPERIOR
20. 20.CHAPTER XIII — INCREASE OF THE BIRTH-RATE OF THE SUPERIOR — WELLESLEY COLLEGE
21. 21.CHAPTER XIV — THE COLOR LINE
22. 22.CHAPTER XV — IMMIGRATION
23. 23.CHAPTER XVI — WAR
24. 24.CHAPTER XVII — GENEALOGY AND EUGENICS
25. 25.CHAPTER XVIII — THE EUGENIC ASPECT OF SOME SPECIFIC REFORMS — TAXATION — THE "BACK TO THE FARM" MOVEMENT — DEMOCRACY — SOCIALISM — CHILD LABOR — COMPULSORY EDUCATION — VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE AND TRAINING — THE MINIMUM WAGE — MOTHERS' PENSIONS — HOUSING — FEMINISM — OLD AGE PENSIONS — THE SEX HYGIENE MOVEMENT — TRADES UNIONISM — PROHIBITION — PEDAGOGICAL CELIBACY
26. 26.CHAPTER XIX — RELIGION AND EUGENICS
27. 27.CHAPTER XX — EUGENICS AND EUTHENICS — Child Mortality in Families of Long-lived Stock, Genealogical Record Office Data — Length of Life of Mothers and Child-mortality of Their Daughters. English Quaker Families, Data of Beeton and Pearson, Arranged by Plœtz — Length of Life of Fathers and Child-mortality of Their Daughters — Length of Life of Fathers and Child-mortality of Their Children in Royal and Princely Families, Plœtz' Data
28. 28.APPENDIX A — OVARIAN TRANSPLANTATION
29. 29.APPENDIX B — "DYNAMIC EVOLUTION"
30. 30.APPENDIX C — THE "MELTING POT"
31. 31.APPENDIX D — THE ESSENCE OF MENDELISM
32. 32.APPENDIX E — USEFUL WORKS OF REFERENCE
33. 33.APPENDIX F — GLOSSARY
34. 34.INDEX — FOOTNOTES — Collateral Inheritance — The following pages contain advertisements of a few of the Macmillan books on kindred subjects. — Comparative Free Government — Problems of Child Welfare — SOCIAL SCIENCE TEXT-BOOKS Edited by Richard T. Ely — History of Economic Thought — By LEWIS H. HANEY — Outlines of Sociology — Social Problems, A Study of Everyday Social Conditions — Outlines of Economics

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