Irving I Gottesman, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Published online: July 2006
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0005238
Eliot Trevor Oakeshott Slater (1904–1983) was an English psychiatrist and genetic researcher, founding editor of the British Journal of Psychiatry, and founder of the first Medical Research Council Psychiatric Genetics Unit.
Keywords: psychiatric genetics; schizophrenia; manic-depressive psychosis; twins; Nazi eugenics; neurosis
| Further Reading | |
| book Proctor RN (1988) Racial Hygiene – Medicine under the Nazis. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press. | |
| book Roth M and Cowie V (eds.) (1979) Psychiatry, Genetics and Pathography, A Tribute to Eliot Slater. London, UK: Gaskell Press. | |
| book Shields J and Gottesman II (eds.) (1971) Man, Mind and Heredity – Selected Papers of Eliot Slater on Psychiatry and Genetics. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. | |
| book Slater E and Cowie V (1971) The Genetics of Mental Disorders. London, UK: Oxford University Press. | |
| book Slater E and Shields J (1953) "Psychotic and Neurotic Illnesses in Twins". Medical Research Council Special Report Series no. 278. London, UK: HMSO. | |
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