Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity by Theodore Porter

Author:Theodore Porter [Porter, Theodore]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Genetics & Genomics, History, Life Sciences, Medicine & Health Sciences, Science
ISBN: 0691164541
Google: G1SwtAEACAAJ
Amazon: B079G8MGRV
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2018-06-05T03:00:00+00:00

Data for Mendel

Davenport’s ideal subcommittee included a man of consequence as a figurehead chairman and an industrious secretary to organize the labor. He installed himself as secretary of the whole Committee on Eugenics and set to work on its first and most urgent need, data. Happily, he now realized, the data were all around.

They lie hidden in records of our numerous charity organizations, our 42 institutions for the feeble-minded, our 115 schools and homes for the deaf and blind, our 350 hospitals for the insane, our 1,200 refuge homes, our 1,300 prisons, our 1,500 hospitals and our 3,500 almshouses. Our great insurance companies and our college gymnasiums have tens of thousands of records of the characters of human blood lines. These records should be studied, their hereditary data sifted out and properly recorded on cards and the cards sent to a central bureau for study in order that data should be placed in their proper relations in the great strains of human protoplasm that are coursing through the country.

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