The Annals of Eugenics
In a 1926 article in American Anthropologist, E.A. Hooten reviews the brand new journal Annals of Eugenics, a publication devoted to “racial problems” that “every anthropologist will welcome.”
Martin Robbins - 23 February 2011
Eugenics is, for good reason, a neglected part of the history of science. It is often associated with genocidal dictatorships such as the Nazi regime, but it’s easy to forget the uncomfortable truth that this was a well-established field in America and Britain too, only a few generations ago.
The following is a look at a PDF I stumbled across a few years ago; anthropologist E.A. Hooten’s 1926 review (pdf) of the first issue of a new journal called “Annals of Eugenics: A Journal for the Scientific Study of Racial Problems.”
The journal was issued by the Francis Galton Laboratory for National Eugenics, University of London, and this was no fringe publication - the Institute for Scientific Information listed it as one of the “262 journals published between 1900-1944 … identified as providing the most relevant significant and useful information of that era to today’s researcher”. Hooten was a “U.S. physical anthropologist known for his work on racial classification”, so what did he make of this new journal?
Tags: Francis Galton, sterilization
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March 7th, 2011 at 4:18 am
Einstein put it best when he said “You can talk about the ethical foundations of science, but you cannot talk about the scientific foundations of ethics.” That’s what scientists should think about when they revisit the horror of eugenics. Many won’t though, they’ll simply say Darwinism explains the origin of ethics, even though Darwinian ethics are the very same thing that brought about eugenics in the first place. Oh well, when their lack of morals eventually lead to a “Clone War” let’s hope it doesn’t suck as much as that Star Wars prequel did… man did that movie ever suck.