Pauline MH Mazumdar, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Published online: September 2006
DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0005611
Eugenics in Britain was seen as a solution to the problem of pauperism. It was a political, rather than a scientific movement: it did not, however, achieve its aim of legalizing sterilization for the feebleminded.
Keywords: Eugenics; differential fertility; pedigrees; Mendelism; sterilization
| Further Reading | |
| book Gillham NW (2001) A Life of Sir Francis Galton. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | |
| book Mazumdar PMH (1992) Eugenics, Human Genetics and Human Failings: The Eugenics Society, its Sources and its Critics in Britain. London: Routledge. | |
| book Peel RA (ed.) (1998) Essays in the History of Eugenics. London: Galton Institute. | |
| book Searle GR (1976) Eugenics and Politics in Britain 1900–1914. Leyden, The Netherlands: Noordhoff. | |
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