Davenport's Dream: 21st Century Reflections on Heredity and EugenicsJan Anthony Witkowski, John R. Inglis Davenport's Dream: 21st Century Reflections on Heredity and Eugenics is a cautionary tale in two parts. One part is a facsimile of the first and one of the most influential textbooks on human genetics to appear in the 20th century, Charles Davenport's 1911 book Heredity in Relation to Eugenics. The other is a series of reflections by 12 eminent scholars on questions about ourselves and our humanity that preoccupied Davenport and continue to challenge us today - the meaning of genetic variation, the sources of mental illness, the influence of nature versus nurture, and the processes of human evolution. Charles Davenport was an early convert to Mendelism and one of the first to argue that Mendel's laws governed all human characteristics, supporting this view with hundreds of painstakingly collected family pedigrees. His book Heredity in Relation to Eugenics provided an academic basis for the eugenics movement in the United States, a campaign to encourage the gifted to procreate and to "cut off the lower levels" and. "dry up the springs that feed the torrent of defective and degenerate protoplasm," believed to underlie the characteristics of criminals, the "feeble-minded," and the poor. |
Contents
| 1 | |
| 35 | |
The Eugenic World of Charles Benedict Davenport | 59 |
Davenports Dream | 77 |
Genetic Determinism and Evolutionary Ethics | 99 |
Psychiatric Genetics in an Era of Relative Enlightenment | 123 |
Genes in Mind? | 145 |
Davenport and Heredity Counseling | 159 |
1911 Contents | vii |
Ch I Heredity in Relation to Eugenics | 1 |
Ch II The Method of Eugenics | 6 |
Ch III The Inheritance of Family Traits | 26 |
Ch IV The Geographical Distribution of Inheritable Traits | 181 |
Ch V Migrations and Their Eugenic Significance | 204 |
Ch VI The Influence of the Individual on the Race | 225 |
Ch VIII Eugenics and Euthenics | 252 |
Genetics and Equality | 167 |
Genetics and Human Nature | 181 |
What follows is a facsimile | 192 |
Reprint 1911 Front Matter | 194 |
1911 Copyright | 195 |
1911 Dedication | i |
1911 Preface | iii |
Ch IX The Organization of Applied Eugenics | 267 |
1911 Bibliography | 273 |
1911 Appendix | 289 |
1911 Index | 290 |
Inside back cover | 299 |
Back cover | 300 |
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