Hamburg, Beatrix A. - see under officers
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Hamburg, Prof. Dr. David A. - Member 1974; Director 1989-1991
Personal:
President, Carnegie Corp., NY 1983-; b. 1925; Indiana Univ. 1947 MD;
Psychiatrist; Chief, adult psychiatry branch, National Institute of
Mental Health (NIMH) 1958-61; Stanford University School of Medicine
(Prof. of Psychiatry 1961-76, Chmn., Dept. of Psychiatry 1969-76); Reed
Hodgson Prof. of Human Biology 197276); National Academy of Science,
Institute of Medicine (President, 1975-80); J. D. MacArthur Professor of
health policy and director, division of health policy research 1980-82,
Harvard; Consultant, UNESCO 1969-70; Chmn, various cttees, NIMH, HEW,
WHO, National Academy of Science; awards APHA, WHO; American Academy of
Science (AAAS), President 1984-85; Member, American Society of Human
Genetics; Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
1957-58; National Academy of Science, Institute of Medicine (Pres.
1975-80); WHO, Advisory Comm on Medical Research 1975-86; Association for
Research in Nervous and Mental Disease (Pres. 1967-68)
Publications:
1994 Carnegie Commission Report on Children; 1993 "The American Family
Transformed", Society, v. 30, p. 60 January; 1992 Today's Children:
Creating a Future for a Generation in Crisis; 1992 "Losing the Next
Generation", by A. Toufaxis, Time, v. 139, p. 59, March 23; 1989
Psychosocial Perspectives on Health: Implications for Research and
Developing Services, Cambridge; Health and Behavior: Frontiers of
Research in Bio-behavioral Sciences , Institute of Medicine Press
Source: SB 1989-1991; AMWS 1992; Directory of Medical Specialists, vol.
2, 25th edition, 1991-92
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Hankins, Prof. Frank H.- 1939-57
Personal:
Professor of Sociology, Smith College (1939-52; Emeritus 1953-57);
University of Pennsylvania, Visiting Professor of Sociology 1947; Birth
Control Federation of America, Advisory Council 1939; Consulting Editor,
Birth Control Review 1939; Member, American Society of Human Genetics
1954
Publications:
1908 Adolphe Quetelet as a Statistician, (reprinted, Columbia
University)
Source: EN 1939-52; EQ 1953-57; Membership list, American Society of
Human Genetics, AJHG 1954; BCR, Nov. 1939; BCR, Feb./March 1939
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Hardin, Prof. Garrett - Member 1956; Director 1971-74
Personal:
b. 1915; University of California at Santa Barbara 1971-74; Member,
American Society of Human Genetics 1954
Publications:
1992 "Interview", Omni, v. 14, p. 55, June;
1974 Mandatory Motherhood, Boston; Stalking the Wild Taboo. 1973 (about
abortion); Birth Control. 1970 (Biological Sciences Curriculum Study
book) New York, Pegasus; Science and Controversy: population, a case
study. 1969 (Intended to accompany Population, Evolution and Birth
Control) San Francisco, W. H. Freeman; Population, Evolution and Birth
Control: a collage of controversial readings. 1969 2nd Ed (1st Ed 1964)
San Francisco, Freeman; "The Tragedy of the Commons" Science CLXII 1968
1243-48; 39 Steps to Biology; readings from the Scientific American. 1968
San Francisco, Freeman; Biology: its principles and implications. 1961
San Francisco, Freeman; Nature and Man's Fate. 1959 New York, Rinehart;
Biology: its human implications. 2nd Ed 1952. San Francisco, Freeman
(cited Human Breeding and Survival. by Guy Irving Burch q.v. for further
reading)
Quote:
--Eugenics, democracy and social reform:
"in other animals, [that is,
other than man, Ed note] where experimentation is possible, it has been
clearly shown that there are inheritable factors that determine the
limits of intellectual ability ... In all cases ... studies indicate that
as long as our present social organization [i.e. democracy, Ed note]
continues there will be a slow but continuous downward trend in the
average intelligence ... Every time a philanthropist sets up a foundation
to look for a cure for a certain disease he thereby threatens humanity
eugenically ... Again consider the matter of charity. When one saves a
starving man, one may thereby help him breed more children ... It is not
possible to avoid eugenic action; every time we support a charity, endow
a research institute, or promulgate a new taxation scheme, our actions
whether good or bad, have eugenic consequences, however unconscious we
may be of them." from chapter "Man: Evolution in the Future" in Biology:
its human implications. quoted in Chase p. 372 , 374
--Eugenics and coercion:
"Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all ... to
couple the concept of freedom to breed with the belief that everyone has
a born equal right to the commons is to lock the world into a tragic
course of action" (from "Tragedy of the Commons" quoted in Chase p. 393)
In actual fact, the theft of the commons by the British elite enriched
them and ruined the peasant class of England.
Source: EQ 1956; SB 1971-72 (Sept. 1971), 1973, 1974; Membership list,
American Society of Human Genetics, AJHG 1954
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Howe, Mrs. Lucien - 1931
Source: AESM 1931
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Howells, Prof. William White - Member 1956; Director 1966-71; Member 1974
Personal:
b. 1908; physical anthropologist who specialized in showing population
relationships through measurements; pioneered cranial measurements in
world population studies; developed anthropology curricula; wrote popular
books; PhD Harvard; then worked with Ernest Hooten of the American
Eugenics Society Advisory Council in 1929; then to American Museum of
Natural History, New York City; at University of Wisconsin 1953; offered
a chair of anthropology at Harvard following Hooten's death in 1954;
Peabody Museum of American Ethn. Harvard 1956; Department of
Anthropology, Harvard University 1966-74 (Professor of Anthropology
1966-67); Member, American Society of Human Genetics 1954
Publications:
Skull Shapes and the Map: Craniometric Analysis in the Dispersion of
Modern Homo. 1989; The Solomon Islands Project: a long term study of
health, human biology and cultural change. 1987 ed. by J. Friedlander w/
W. Howells) Oxford Univ. Press; "The Neanderthals", Scientific American,
Dec. 1979; Evolution of the Genus Homo. 1973 Reading, Massachusetts;
Cranial Variation in Man: a study by multivariate analysis of patterns of
difference among recent human populations. 1973 Cambridge
("authoritative" Encyclopedia Britannica 15th edition 1987 vol. 6 p. 93);
Hutterite Age Differences in Body Measurements. 1970 w/ Herman Bleibtreu,
Cambridge, MA, Peabody Museum; Mankind in the Making: the story of human
evolution. rev. ed. 1967 (1st ed. 1960); "Homo Erectus", Scientific
American, Nov. 1966; Craniometry and multivariate analysis: the Jomon
population of Japan. 1966 Cambridge; Ideas on Human Evolution (ed.)
1962; "The Distribution of Man", Scientific American, Sept. 1960; Mankind
in the Making 1959; Early Man in the Far East. 1949 Philadelphia,
American Association of Physical Anthropologists; The Heathens: primitive
man and his religion. 1948 Garden City, NY; Mankind So Far. 1944 Garden
City, NY; Anthropometry and Blood Types in Fiji and Solomon Islands:
based upon data of Wm. L. Moss. 1933 Anthropological Papers of the
American Museum of Natural History
Source: EQ 1966-68, SB 1969-71 (June 1971); Osborne list; Membership
list, American Society of Human Genetics, AJHG 1954; "William W. Howells"
Encyclopedia Britannica 15th edition 1987 vol. 6
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Hulse, Frederick - 1971-74
Personal:
b. 1906; University of Arizona (Dept of Anthropology 1971-74), Tucson
Publications:
1964 "The Paragon of Animals", Eugenics Quarterly, v. 11, no. 1; 1963 The
Human Species: an introduction to physical anthropology; 1961 "Welfare,
Demography and Genetics", Eugenics Quarterly, v. 8, no. 4;. 1939
Migration and Environment: a study of the physical characteristics of the
Japanese immigrants to Hawaii and the effects of environment on their
descendants., w/ H.L. Shapiro q.v., Oxford Univ. Press
Source: SB (Sept.) 1971-1974; Osborne list
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Kallmann, Prof. Dr. Franz J.- 1952, 1954-65
Founder of medical genetics in the United States; trained in Germany
under the Rudin, who helped write the race laws; b. 1897 Neumarket,
Germany; d. May 12, 1965; MD Breslau 1919; Ass't psychiatric univ.
clinics Breslau-Berlin 1919-27; Director, neuropathology lab, Berlin
Herzeberge and Berlin-Wuhlgarten, also research fellow Max Planck (Kaiser
Wilhelm) Institute of Psychiatry, Munich 1928-35; believed that
schizophrenia and tuberculosis were genetically based.
(Max Planck = Kaiser Wilhelm because the Kaiser Wilhelm Society was
renamed the Max Planck Society after World War II. Thus, Prof. Kallmann
was working at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute with Rudin, the architect of
Hitler's laws, before the war. But if you want to trace Rudin or
Kallmann you must look for "Max Planck" as well as "Kaiser Wilhelm". The
Kaiser Wilhelm/ Max Planck Society has a very distinguished record in
physics and other "hard" sciences. The biological/anthropological
section was connected with experiments at Auschwitz but seems to be
sheltered by its connection with the other institutes.)
Kallmann was half Jewish so lost his position under later Nazi laws; came
to USA 1936; New York State Psychiatric Institute (Geneticist 1936-51,
chief of psychiatric research 1952-65); Columbia University (Prof. of
Psychiatry 1955-63, Emeritus 196365); Fellow: American Gerontological
Assn., AAAS; Member: American Society of Human Genetics (Founder 1948;
Pres., 1951-52; Member 1954), American Psychopathological Assn. (Pres.
1964-65, see Paul Hoch q.v.), Eastern Psychiatric Research Assn. (Pres.,
1963-64)
Publications:
Expanding Goals of Genetics in Psychiatry. 1962 Grune and Stratton
(genetic counseling); Heredity in Health and Mental Disorder: principles
of psychiatric genetics in the light of comparative twin studies. 1953
New York; "Percentage Frequency of Tuberculosis in the Families of 308
Tubercular Twins" 1943 American Review of Tuberculosis, v. 47; The
Genetics of Schizophrenia: a study of Heredity and Reproduction in the
families of 1087 schizophrenics, NY 1938. (The first edition of The
Genetics of Schizophrenia was printed in Germany and New York. One year
later a full scale plan of mental health exterminations was under way in
Germany because it had been "proved" that mental disease was hereditary.
Kallmann's work was part of this "proof". The personnel trained in these
exterminations went on to the Holocaust camps in the 1940's.)
Background:
"Dr. Franz J. Kallmann, who was formerly associated with Dr. Ernst Rudin,
investigating in genetic psychiatry, is now attached to the Psychiatric
Institute and Hospital, New York, where he is doing research work in the
same field." EN 1938 p. 34
"The picture of Kallmann as a bleeding heart protector of schizophrenics,
adjusting his scientific theories to mirror his compassion, is
grotesquely false. The first Kallmann publication on schizophrenia is in
a German volume edited by Harmsen and Lohse that contains the proceedings
of the frankly Nazi International Congress for Population Science.
There, in Berlin, Kallmann argued vigorously for the sterilization of the
apparently healthy relatives of schizophrenics, as well as of
schizophrenics themselves. ... The eugenicist views of Kallmann were not
confined to obscure Nazi publications but were also made widely available
in English after his arrival in the United States in 1936. In 1938 he
wrote of schizophrenics as a 'source of maladjusted crooks, asocial
eccentrics, and the lowest type of criminal offenders. Even the faithful
believer in ... liberty would be much happier without those ... I am
reluctant to admit the necessity of different eugenic programs for
democratic and fascistic communities ... there are neither biological nor
sociological differences between a democratic and a totalitarian
schizophrenic.' The extremity of Kallmann's totalitarian passion for
eugenic sterilization was clearly indicated in his major 1938 text.
Precisely because of the recessivity of the illness, it was above all
necessary to prevent the reproduction of the apparently healthy children
and siblings of schizophrenics.... These views of the future President of
the American Society of Human Genetics are so bloodcurdling that one can
sympathize with the efforts of present day geneticists to misrepresent or
suppress them." from Not in Our Genes., 1984, Richard Lewontin and
others. pp. 208-9.
Significance:
To understand the significance of Kallmann, look in the Index under the
entry American Society of Human Genetics. Note the number of American
Eugenics Society members who were members of the American Society of
Human Genetics. Reflect on the fact that Leo Alexander, Otmar Freiherr
von Verschuer, Hans Nachtsheim, Fritz Lenz and Hans Gunther were all
members in 1954 of Kallmann's Society. Realize that this same Society
dominates the Human Genome Project. Become aware that this Society has
developed hundreds of prenatal tests but does not look for cures though
every test is hyped in the newspapers as a potential lead towards a cure.
Finally, be prepared.
This Society has gained complete control of the field of medical genetics
(negative eugenics) which field the American Medical Society has recently
recognized as a specialty. Authoritative "Board certified" American
voices could soon be saying what Hitler, with Kallmann's help, said once
before.
"Hitler's arithmetic", which was another name for containing health care
costs through health care reform, could circulate among us again.
Someone might explain that they wish to be good to the (productive)
American people.
Source: EN 1938; WWWIA; Encyclopedia Britannica article on Max Planck; EN
1952; The Men Behind Hitler.; EQ 1954-65; Membership list, American
Society of Human Genetics, AJHG 1954
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Kaplan, Arnold R. - Member 1956; Director Sept. 1971-1972
Personal:
Cleveland Psychiatric Institute 1971-72
Publications:
1965 "On the Genetics of `Schizophrenia' ", Eugenics Quarterly, v. 12,
no. 3; 1958 "Biochemical Studies in Schizophrenia", Eugenics Quarterly,
v. 5, no. 2
Source: EQ 1956; SB 1971 (Sept.), 1972 (March)
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Kety, Seymour - 1981-1986
Personal:
1988 National Institute of Mental Health (NIH); Harvard University
1981-1986
Publications:
1983 Genetics of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders, Association for
Research in Nervous and Mental Diseases
Background:
1988 "`For many years, genetics was in disrepute in psychiatry because
you could not do anythingabout it', says Seymour Kety ... [of NIMH] ....
That has changed and now psychiatrists agree that many mental illnesses,
including manic depression, schizophrenia and perhaps anxiety disorders,
may have a hereditary component. `But the genetic patterns in these
disorders are not likely to be clearcut' Kety cautions." Science, Nov.
18, 1988, v. 242, p. 1014
Source: SB 1981-1986
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Keyfitz, Prof. Nathan - Member 1974, Director 1982-87, 1989-91
Personal:
1989-1991International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg,
Austria; 1985-87 University of Toront0; 1982-84 Harvard School of Public
Health (Andelot Professor of Sociology and Demography); 1982 Lazarus
Professor of Social Demography, Ohio State; 1974 Prof. of Sociology,
Harvard Univ; Ford Foundation sent Keyfitz to Indonesia where he "became
a close advisor to President Suharto" Limiting Population Growth and the
Ford Foundation, John Caldwell 1986, p. 117
Publications:
1994 Advisory Editor, Social Science and Modern Society, a journal which
is participating in the attempted rehabilitation of Cyril Burt of the
English Eugenics Society; 1989 "The Growing Human Population", Scientific
American, Sept.; 1984 "The Population of China", Scientific American,
Feb.; 1977 Applied Mathematical Demography.; 1976 "World Resources and
the World Middle Class", Scientific American, July; 1972 "Population
theory and doctrine: a historical survey" in Readings in Population. (ed.
with Wm. Patterson) (reviews say that this article shows that population
theory is based on Malthus); 1972 Causes of Death: Life tables for
national populations, w/ Nathan Keyfitz q.v. and Robert Schoen, New York,
Seminar Press; 1968 An Introduction to the Mathematics of Population.
Quotes:
1989 "National Leaders ... want to add as few more people as possible ...
one birth prevented is one unemployed person fewer in 2010 ... [the
unemployed person may be] a high school or college graduate and therefore
especially dangerous to political stability"
Source: Osborne list; SB 1982-87, 1989-91
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King, Mary Claire - 1992-1993
Personal: Univ. of California at Berkeley 1992; breast cancer (see
Scientific American, December 1991)
Source: SB 1992-1993
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Kirk, Dudley - see under officers
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Kiser, Clyde V. - see under officers
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Knach, S. - 1936
Source: AESM, May 1936
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Krech, Mrs. Shephard - see under officers
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Lancaster, Jane Beckman - 1986-91
Personal:
b. 1935; University of New Mexico 1986-90
Publications:
1989 "Measuring Sterility from Incomplete Birth Histories" 1989
Demography, v. 26:185 ff; 1987 "Demographic foundations of family
change" 1987 American Sociol. Rev., June p. 346 ff; Parenting Across the
Life Span: biosocial dimensions. 1987 (Ed.) New York, A. De Gruyter,
sponsored by the Social Science Research Council; Child Abuse and
Neglect: biosocial dimensions. 1987 (Ed.) w/ Richard Gelles, New York, A.
de Gruyter, sponsored by the Social Sciences Research Council, Committee
on biosocial perspectives of Parent Behavior and Offspring Development;
School Age Pregnancy and Parenthood. 1986 (see B. Hamburg q.v.); Origins
and Evolution of Language and Speech. 1976 Proc. of Conference "Origins
and Evolution of Language and Speech" Ed. w/ Steven R. Harnad and Horst
Steklis) New York Academy of Sciences; Primate Behavior and the Emergence
of Human Culture. 1975 (New York, Holt Rinehart and Winston)
Source: SB 1986-91
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Lewontin, Dean Richard C.- 1966-77
Personal:
b. 1929; Harvard Univ. 1972-77; PhD (zoology) 1954 Columbia; biometrics,
Columbia 1953-54; asst. prof. biology, Univ. Rochester 1958-64; Univ.
Chicago (Prof. Biology 1964-73, assoc. dean, Biological Sciences
1966-68); Harvard Univ., Prof. Biology 1973-(1989), Museum of Comparative
Zoology, 1990 (see E. Mayr); NSF fellow, Fulbright fellow; Member: AAAS,
Genetic Society America, Society Study Evolution (Pres.) 1970; Museum of
Comparative Zoology, Harvard (see E. Mayr q.v.); Marxist
Publications:
1993 Biology as Ideology: the doctrine of DNA; 1992 "Forensic DNA
typing", letters from Lewontin, K. K. Kidd q.v. et al 1992 Science, v.
255, Feb. 28, p. 1050; 1991 "Population Genetics in Forensic DNA Typing",
Science, v. 254, p. 1745, Dec. 20; The Dialectical Biologist, 1987;
Education and Class: the irrelevance of IQ genetic studies. 1986 w/
Michel Schiff, Oxford University Press; An Introduction to Genetic
Analysis. w/ David T. Suzuki, Anthony J. F. Griffiths; The Dialectical
Biologist 1985; Not In Our Genes: Biology, Ideology and Human Nature.
1984 by R. C. Lewontin, Steven Rose, and Leon Kamin, New York, Pantheon;
Dobzhansky's Genetics of Natural Populations. 1981 (papers published
between 1937-75), Columbia University Press; Human Diversity 1982; The
Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change 1974; Symposium on Population
Biology. 1968 (Ed.), Syracuse Univ. Press; 1968 "Selective Mating,
Assortative Mating, and Inbreeding: Definitions and Implications", w/ D.
Kirk q.v. and J. Crow q.v., Eugenics Quarterly, v. 15:141 (Background
explanation: "assortative mating does not change gene frequency, whereas
selective mating does" from H. C. Spencer, Social Biology 1992, v. 39, p.
310); co-editor American Naturalist 1965 (journal of American Society of
Naturalists); 1959 "The goodness-of-fit test for detecting natural
selection in random mating populations", Evolution, v. 13:561
Background:
Marxism and Eugenics: Engels said: "The whole Darwinist teaching of the
struggle for existence is simply a transference from society to living
nature of Hobbes' doctrine of bellum omnium contra omnes and of the
bourgeois doctrine of competition together with Malthus's theory of
population. When this conjurer's trick has been performed ... the same
theories are transferred back again from organic nature into history and
it is now claimed that their validity as eternal laws of human society
has been proved. The puerility of this procedure is so obvious that not
a word need be said about it." letter to P. L. Lavrov, 12-17 November
1875 cited in Not In Our Genes: Biology, Ideology and Human Nature. 1984
by R. C. Lewontin, Steven Rose, and Leon Kamin, New York, Pantheon, p.
309
This quotation neatly sums up a problem in the history of eugenics. On
the one hand there have been Marxist eugenicists. They are chiefly
responsible for exposing Cyril Burt's fraud, though it was L. S.
Hearnshaw's book that put the matter beyond doubt. On the other hand, it
would seem that, in the nature vs. nurture controversy, Marxism is the
classic example of a "nurture" theory while eugenics is a "nature"
theory. How then are we to account for the existence of Marxist
eugenicists such as J. B. S. Haldane, Theodosius Dobzhansky, and Richard
Lewontin? Why are they members of a society dedicated to the theories of
Adam Smith as filtered through Darwin? Engels himself pointed out that
Darwin's theories were those of Adam Smith. (see above quotation supplied
by Lewontin)
It seems to me that we must remember that J. S. Mill was the father of
both conservative and communist economics in England. In 1973
Solzhenitsyn at Harvard pointed out the same thing: that those involved
in the "nature vs. nurture" controversy are two wings of one materialist
movement, each trying to devour the other. The Orthodox or Roman
Catholic position, that man has a spiritual soul, is almost entirely
outside this controversy between materialists. Consequently, men such as
Lewontin will appear to attack eugenics itself when, in reality, they are
only attacking what they see as a right wing deformation of eugenics.
Lewontin, for example, argues for a "dialectical explanation" (i.e.
leftist) of man and biology as opposed to a "reductionist" (i.e.
rightist) sociobiology.
And so we cannot expect Lewontin and others to adopt a right to life
point of view. Instead we will find them manfully demolishing right wing
eugenics while manfully swallowing, ignoring and denying that of the
left. Should they come to power they will bring in eugenics just as
quickly as the right. In fact, eugenics usually becomes legislation when
a left wing government is in power and, as in England in 1966, it votes
with the right wing on an issue such as abortion. The same thing is
happening with Clinton.
Source: EQ 1966-68; SB 1969-77; AMWS 1989
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Lindbergh, Charles A. - 1955-59
Personal:
Spirit of St. Louis; b. 1902; d. 1974; Father was Congressman from
Minnesota; two years at University of Wisconsin; became a flier; 1927
made first non stop trans Atlantic flight; married Anne Morrow, daughter
of US. ambassador to Mexico, Dwight Morrow 1929; Dwight Morrow was a
Morgan Partner; worked for Pan Am; son kidnapped 1932; the Lindberghs
went to Europe to escape publicity; worked with Alexis Carrel of the
Rockefeller Institute on developing perfusion machine to keep heart
alive; studied German air power; advocated US. neutrality in WW II;
consultant to United Air Lines; flew combat missions; lived in
Connecticut then Hawaii; consultant to Pan Am and Dept. of Defense;
appointed Brigadier General in Air Force Reserve by Eisenhower 1954;
there is a statue of Charles Lindbergh at the entrance to the Rockefeller
Center
Publications:
1978 The Autobiography of Values; The Spirit of St. Louis. 1953; Of
Flight and Life. 1948; Wartime Journals 1938-45. published 1970; The
Culture of Organs. 1938 w/ Alexis Carrel (Alexis Carrel founded the Vichy
Foundation for Human Betterment under the Vichy government.); We. 1927
Background:
1989 Lindbergh on the Federal Reserve, C. A. Lindbergh Sr.; 1972
Banking, Currency, theMoney Trust and War, C.A. Lindbergh 1972
Source: EQ 1955-59; "Charles Lindbergh" Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th
edition 1987, vol. 7 p. 371-2
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Lindeman, Prof. Eduard C. - 1936, 1939-40
Personal:
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Board of Directors; Prof. of Social
Philosophy, New York School of Social Work, New York, NY 1939-40; Birth
Control Federation of America, Advisory Council 1939; Citizens Committee
for Planned Parenthood 1939
Publications:
Birth Control Review, Consulting editor 1939
Source: AESM 1936; EN 1939-40; WWWIA; BCR April and November 1939; BCR,
Feb./March 1939
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Lindzey, Gardner - see under officers
Littell, Robert - 1939-44
Publications:
Editorial Committee, Eugenical News 1939-41; Assoc. editor, Readers'
Digest 1940-44
Source: EN 1939-44
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Little, Clarence C. - Member 1925; Director 1929, 1939
Personal:
DSc; University of Michigan (Pres.); American Society for the Control of
Cancer, NY, NY 1939; American Birth Control League, (Pres. 1937);
Citizens Committee for Planned Parenthood 1939
Publications:
Birth Control Review, Consulting Editor 1939; Birth Control Federation of
America (v.p., 1939, 1940)
Source: Eugenics, Feb., 1929; EN 1939; BCR Oct. 1937; BCR, April and
November and December 1939; BCR, Feb/ March 1939 and Jan. 1940
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Loehlin, John C.- Director 1968-74; Member 1974
Personal:
University of Texas 1968-73 (Dept. of Psychology 1968, 1974)
Publications:
1992 Genes and Environment in Personality Development; 1992 Latent
Variable Models: An Introduction to Factor, Path and Structural Analysis;
1977 "Genotype-environment interaction and correlation in the analysis of
human behavior" w/ J.C. DeFries and R. Plomin q.v., Psychol. Bulletin, v.
88, p. 245 ff ; 1976 Heredity, Environment and Personality: a study of
850 sets of twins w/ Robert C. Nichols, University of Texas Press; Race
Differences in Intelligence. 1975 w/ Gardner Lindzey q.v. and J. N.
Spuhler q.v.
Source: EQ 1968-69, SB 1969-74
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MacIver, R.M. - 1929-32
Source: AESM 1929
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Mauldin, W. Parker - 1969-76
Personal:
Population Council (1992 co-manages information collection on family
planning programs around the world; chief of Demography 1969-76); called
M. Parker Mauldin (Dec. 1972), W. Parker Mauldin (March 1972) and Parker
Mauldin (1969); a relative, Frances Mauldin, was Frederick Osborn's
private secretary, doubling as the American Eugenics Society secretary in
the late sixties and early seventies.
Publications:
1990 The Promotion of family planning by financial payments: the case of
Bangladesh. Population Council Working Paper #13; 1960 "Fertility Control
in Communist Countries: Policies and Practice" in Population Trends in
Eastern Europe, the USSR and Mainland China, New York, Milbank Memorial
Fund; Berelson on Population (ed. w/ J.A. Ross)
Background:
1990 The Promotion of family planning by financial payments: the case of
Bangladesh. Population Council Working Paper #13. This paper asserted
that those receiving payments understood and freely chose sterilization
(Population Index, v. 56,#3, Fall, 1990, p. 534)
Source: AESC; SB 1969-76; Population Council Annual Report 1992
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Mayr, Ernst - Member 1974, Director 1985, 1986
Personal:
Museum of Comparative Zoology (1974), Harvard University 1985, 1986;
evolutionary theorist who brought systematics into the Synthetic Theory
of evolution
Publications:
One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary
Thought (reviewed 1992 Bioscience, v. 42, Oct., p. 716); "Bureaucratic
Mischief: recognizing endangered species and subspecies", w/ Stephen J.
O'Brien, 1991, Science, v. 251, March 8, p. 1187; Toward a New Philosophy
of Biology: 1988 (review by Francisco Ayala discusses evolutionary
theory, teleology and prediction in biology; Science, June 28, 1988);
Observations of an Evolutionist 1988 (Reviewed by John Maynard Smith,
New York Review of Books, May 14, 1992, p. 34); The Growth of Biological
Thought 1982; The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives on the
Unification of Biology. 1980; "Evolution", Scientific American, Sept.
1978; Evolution and the Diversity of Life 1976; Populations, Species and
Evolution. 1970; Principles of Systematic Zoology. 1969; Animal Species
and Evolution. 1963 Harvard Press; Systematics and the Origin of Species
1942
Background: Biologists are in disagreement over what a species is.
Consequently it is difficult to classify them. The study of species
classification is called systematics. see "Are species specious?
Biologists still argue about what a species is" 1991, Scientific
American, v. 265, Nov. 1991, Science and the Citizen; Furthermore some
groups being protected are actually hybrids or subspecies. But Mayr
believes that even subspecies should sometimes be protected under the
Endangered Species Act. "Bureaucratic Mischief: recognizing endangered
species and subspecies", w/ Stephen J. O'Brien, 1991, Science, v. 251,
March 8, p. 1187
Source: Osborne list; SB 1985, 1986
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McClearn, Gerald A. - Member 1974; Director 1986-88, 1991-92
Personal: (a.k.a. Gerald E. McClearn see SB Spring 1992)
b. 1927; Pennsylvania State University 1986-92; Institute for Behavioral
Genetics, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder 1974
Publications:
1993 Nature, Nurture and Psychology (ed. w/ R. Plomin); 1991 $600,000
from National Institute on Child Health and Human Development (NICHHD) to
Plomin q.v. and McClearn to look for genes involved in cognitive ability,
see Plomin; 1990 Behavioral Genetics: a primer w/ R. Plomin q.v., and
J.C. DeFries q.v.; 1985 "Genetics and the Human Encounter with Alcohol",
Social Biology, v. 32, 3-4; 1985 Development of animal models as
pharmacogenetic tools, Monograph #6, National Institute of Alcohol Abuse
and Alcoholism, NIH, Proc. workshop, Alcohol Research Center, Univ. of
Colorado, Boulder; 1973 Introduction to Behavioral Genetics w/ J.C.
DeFries; 1967 "Psychological Research and Behavioral Phenotypes" in
Genetic Diversity and Human Behavior., (Ed.) J. N. Spuhler q.v.
Source: Osborne list; SB 1986-92; Science, v. 253, 9/20/1991, p. 1352
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MacCluer, Jean W. - Member 1974; Director 1978-86
Personal:
Dept. of Biology, Pennsylvania State University 1976; Center for Advanced
Study, Stanford 1980; Southwest Foundation for Research and Education
1982-86; received grant through recommendation from American Eugenics
Society
Publications:
1992 Issues in Gene Mapping and Detection of Major Genes, Bergamo Conf,
Dayton Ohio, ( in J. Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics, v. 59, #2-3); 1974
"Avoidance of Incest: genetic and demographic consequences" in Computer
Simulation in Human Population Studies, by Bennett Dyke q.v. and J.W.
MacCluer
Source: AESC; Osborne list; SB 1978-86
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McKusick, Prof. Victor - 1971-72 (March); Member 1974
Personal:
b. 1921; Johns Hopkins University (1946-1992; MD 1946; USPHS clin.
intern 1946-52; Instruc. to Prof. Medicine 1946-85; Chief Div. medical
genetics 1957-73, 85-89; Prof. epidemiology and biology 1969-78; Prof.
Medical Genetics 1985-(1992)); Member, American Society of Human Genetics
1954; Pres., 8th Int. Congress in Human Genetics 1991; Founder and
President, Human Genome Organization 1988-90; International Medical
Congress Ltd (Pres.)
Publications:
1993 "Medical genetics: a 40 year perspective on the evolution of a
medical speciality from a basic science", JAMA, v. 270, Nov. 17, p. 2351;
"The Growth of Human Genetics as a Clinical Discipline" (a history);
Medical Genetics 1958-60: An Annotated Review. 1961 and Medical Genetics
1961-63: An Annotated Review. 1966; Genes, Brain and Behavior. 1991 (Ed.)
w/ Paul McHugh, Research Pub., Association for Research in Nervous and
Mental Disease, Raven Press; The Morbid Anatomy of the Human Genome: a
review of gene mapping in clinical medicine. 1988 Howard Hughes Medical
Institute, 6701 Rockledge Dr., Bethesda, MD (Reprints four articles pub.
in Medicine, Jan. 1986, Jan. and July 1987 and Jan. 1988); Medical and
experimental mammalian genetics. (Ed.) Birth Defects v. 23 #3. Papers
collected to celebrate fourteenth anniversary of the Bar Harbor course.
q.v.; Medical Genetic Studies of the Amish: selected papers. 1978 (Ed.)
w/ commentary, Johns Hopkins Press; The Genetics of Hand Malformation. w/
Samia Temtany and Daniel Bergsma. Birth Defects v. 14 #3 National
Foundation March of Dimes; Human Gene Mapping 3 Third International
Workshop sponsored by the March of Dimes at Johns Hopkins 1975 ed. w/
Wilma Bias); Fifth Conference on the Clinical Delineation of Birth
Defects. 1972 sponsored by Johns Hopkins and the March of Dimes (Ed.,
Daniel Bergsma w/ McKusick) pub. for the March of Dimes by Williams and
Wilkins 1974; "The Mapping of Human Chromosomes", Scientific American,
April 1971; (McKusick also edited 4th, 3rd and 2nd conferences 1971,
1970, 1969 all sponsored by the March of Dimes and numbered
sequentially); Limb Malformations 1974 ed. Daniel Bergsma w/ McKusick)
sponsored by Johns Hopkins and the March of Dimes, Stratton
Intercontinental Medical Book; Study Guide: Human Genetics. 1972 w/ Gary
A. Chase, Prentice Hall; Heritable Disorders of Connective Tissue (4th
Ed., 1972) Mosby; "General Tom Thumb and Other Midgets", Scientific
American, July 1967; "The Royal Hemophilia", Scientific American, Aug.
1965; Human Genetics. (1969, 2nd Ed., Prentice Hall), (1st Ed 1958/60,
1961/63, 2 Vol.); "Heart Sounds", Scientific American, May 1956; A
Synopsis of Clinical Auscultation. 1956 Baltimore
Background:
March of Dimes: "The literature of genetic counseling and prenatal
diagnosis is vast ... Valuable for developments since the
nineteen-sixties are the many volumes published by the National
Foundation-March of Dimes in its Birth Defects: Original Article Series
... Very helpful to me in understanding the role of the Foundation in the
development of prenatal diagnosis and counseling was an interview with
Arthur Salisbury in New York, May 1982." Kevles p. 402-3
"In 1960, at McKusick's instigation and with the financial support of the
National Foundation-March of Dimes, a summer course in human genetics
aimed mainly at medical school faculty was established at the Jackson
Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. (A success from the outset, the program
continues to thrive, teaching mouse genetics and human genetics to about
one hundred people a year.") Kevles p. 254
"The National Foundation-March of Dimes, while denying that the severe
fire from the [right-to-life] movement influenced its policies, disclosed
in 1978 that it intended to reduce its considerable support of
genetic-services programs." Kevles p. 287
Source: SB 1971 (Sept.), 1972; Osborne list; Membership list, American
Society of Human Genetics, AJHG 1954
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Menken, Jane - Member 1974; Director 1978-80, 1993
Personal:
1974 Graduate Student in Sociology at Office of Population Research,
Princeton University; (see C. Westoff, A. J. Coale, N. Ryder); Princeton
1978-80
Publications:
1989 "Measuring Sterility from Incomplete Birth Histories" 1989
Demography v. 26:185 ff; 1987 "Demographic foundations of family change"
1987 American Sociol. Rev., June p. 346 ff; 1986 "Female Reproductive
Development: A Hazards Analysis Model", Social Biology, v. 33, 3-4; 1981
Teenage Sexuality, Pregnancy and Childbearing. (Ed. w/ Frank F.
Furstenburg, Richard Lincoln, University of Pennsylvania Press. All
articles originally appeared in Family Planning Perspectives); 1973
Mathematical Models of Conception and Birth., w/ Mindel C. Sheps, Univ.
of Chicago Press
Source: Osborne list; SB 1978-80, 1993
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Mi, Ming Pi - Director 1971-74; Member 1974
Personal:
University of Hawaii 1971-74; also called Ming Pi
Publications:
Interracial Crosses. w/ Newton Morton q.v.
Source: SB 1971-73; Osborne list
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Moore, Mrs. Louis de B. - 1941-51; Member 1956
Personal:
New York City 1941-51; Pres., New York State Birth Control Federation
1940; Chmn. of the Board, American Birth Control League 1937, 1938
Background:
--The Birth Control Review: The Birth Control Review was originally
edited by Margaret Sanger, volume one appearing in 1917. (In the Woman
Rebel, a previous journal, she published articles supporting presidential
assassination and bombings; she herself advocated birth control in the
same issue. For this she was prosecuted under the Comstock laws.) From
December 1921 to January 1939 the American Birth Control League published
the Birth Control Review. From February 1939 to January 1940 the Birth
Control Federation of America (which renamed itself Planned Parenthood
Federation of America in 1942) published the Review. The last issue of
the Birth Control Review (January, 1940) describes the annual meeting of
the Birth Control Federation. Its theme was "Race Building in a
Democracy".
--The American Birth Control League and Planned Parenthood:
"The US. agencies best known internationally for family planning are the
Margaret Sanger Research Bureau and the Planned Parenthood Federation of
America. Foreigners occasionally ask how they differ.
The Bureau
"Founded 33 years ago by Margaret Sanger, the Bureau housed the largest
birth control clinic in America. ... departments of research, infertility
aid and ... marriage counseling ...
The Federation
"An outgrowth of the American Birth Control League (1922), the Planned
Parenthood Federation of America was organized in 1942 for education,
maintenance of standards etc. and to serve and bind together 111
affiliated state and local centers throughout the country. ... The
Federation is dedicated to increasing public understanding of responsible
family life under the credo: To be wanted is the birthright of every ..."
(ARTW, May 1956)
--Birth Control Federation of America: "Forward Under One Banner The
birth control movement in the United States now marches forward with
complete unity. its leadership and resources fused in one new national
organization. The Birth Control Federation of America was formed on
January 18 [1939] through a merger of the Birth Control Clinical Research
Bureau with the American Birth Control League and its state member
leagues throughout the country. The New York City Committee of Mothers
Health Centers has also merged its activities with those of the
Federation."
"Expansion and intensification of the movement will follow this joining
of forces. The two national organizations had always had common
objectives ... The Federation is fortunate in having the leadership of
Margaret Sanger as honorary chairman and an active member of the board of
directors, and of Dr. Richard Pierson as chairman of the board and
president pro tem. The National Medical Council on Birth Control will
serve in an advisory capacity for the Federation."
"The aims and program of the Federation are outlined in this issue [of
the Birth Control Review, Ed.] on page 164 ... "
Department Functions of the Federation p. 164 "The Federation will
maintain two offices - one situated at 501 Madison Avenue, New York (the
League's former headquarters) and the other at 17 West 16th Street, New
York (the former headquarters of the Birth Control Clinical Research
Bureau). ("Feb./ March 1939, Birth Control Review, vol. XXIII, #5-6)
Source: EN 1941-51; EQ 1956; Every Child A Wanted Child; catalogue entry
for Birth Control Review in National Library of Medicine; Birth Control
Review 1940 #3; BCR Oct. 1937; BCR May 1938
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Morgan, Arthur E. - 1950-57
Personal:
b. Cleveland, Ohio 1878; Pres., Antioch College 1920-36; Chmn., Tennessee
Valley Authority 1933-38; Pres., Community Service Inc., Yellow Springs.
Ohio 1950-57
Publications:
1984 The Small Comunity: Foundation of Democratic Life; 1979 The
Philosophy of Edward Bellamy; 1974 The Making of the TVA.; 1971Dams and
other Disasters: A Century of the Army Corps of Engineers in Civil Work;
"A Laboratory Case in Urban Survival: the Parsi of Bombay" Eugenical News
1950, 35, 3-5 (the Parsi, "a superior and almost pure racial strain" and
their survival in Bombay, quotation from a review in Psychological
Abstracts 1927-58 p. 2715); 1944 Plagiarism in Utopia
Source: EN 1950-53; EQ 1954-57; Psychological Abstracts; WWWIA
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Morton, Prof. Newton - 1958, 1959 (March), 1977-82
Personal:
University of Hawaii 1977-82 (See Pi Ming Mi); Professor of Medical
Genetics, University of Wisconsin 1958-59 (see R. Osborne)
Publications:
1983 "Race, and Blood Pressure in Northeastern Brazil", Social Biology,
v. 30, 2; 1983 Methods in Genetic Epidemiology., w/ Dabeera Rao and Jean
Marc Lalouel (Basle, New York) Karger; Outline of Genetic Epidemiology.
1982 (Basle, New York) Karger; "Hereditary Genius: A Centennial Problem
in Resolution of Cultural and Biological Inheritance" 1980 Social
Biology, v. 27, 1; (Ed.) Genetic Epidemiology. 1978 w/ Chin Sik Chung.
Based on conference at Univ. of Hawaii 1977 (New York, Academic Press);
Computer Applications in Genetics. 1969 Proc. of a conference sponsored
by Univ. of Hawaii and Genetics Study Section, Division of Research
Grants, National Institute of Health (NIH), dedicated to L. S. Snyder
q.v., Univ. of Hawaii Press; A Genetics Program Library. 1969, Univ. of
Hawaii Press, supported by a grant GM 15421 from NIH; Genetics of
Interracial Crosses in Hawaii. 1967 (Basle, New York) Karger; "Models and
Evidence in Human Population Genetics" in Genetics Today. Proc. XI
International Congress of Genetics. The Hague 1963 (Ed.) S. Geerts; "The
Genetical Structure of Human Populations" 1963 in Les Desplacements
humains: Aspects methologiques de leur mesure. (Ed.) J. Sutter, Paris
"The Mutational Load due to detrimental genes in man" 1960 American
Journal of Human Genetics 12:348-364;
Background:
"Sewall Wright (q.v.) began using more complicated arithmetic for animal
breeding studies. His methods have been modified by Newton Morton and
others for use in human genetics as the basis of pedigree analysis and
the formal genetics of mankind." Social Biology, 1974 p. 332
Source: EQ 1958, 1959 (March); SB 1977-82; Osborne list
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Motulsky, Prof. Arnold G. - Member 1974; Director 1988-93
Personal:
b. 1923, East Prussia; left Germany 1939 on S.S. St. Louis; not allowed
to land (See The Voyage of the Franz Joseph, Yaffe); Vichy refugee camps;
entered US 1941
MD Univ. of Illinois 1947; University of Washington Medical School,
Seattle ((1953-(1992), taught by Herluf Starndskov q.v. then studied at
Galton Lab, London (C.A.B. Smith and Harry Harris 1958) then put in
charge of the division of Medical genetics in Seattle; 1992 Prof. of
Medicine; Head of Division of Medical Genetics); American Society of
Human Genetics, Pres. 1977-78; Pres., VII International Congress in Human
Genetics, Berlin 1986
Publications:
1989 "Medical Genetics", JAMA, v. 261, May 19, p. 2855; 1988 Human
Genetics: Problems and Approaches, w/ Peter Vogel; 1983 "Impact of
Genetic Manipulation on Society and Medicine", Science, v. 219:135; 1974
Birth Defects, w/ W. Lenz, q.v., Amsterdam (W. Lenz is the son of Fritz
Lenz, whom Hitler quoted. W. Lenz followed von Verschuer, Mengele's
co-researcher at Auschwitz, as Prof. of Human Genetics at Munster); 1973
"Brave New World?", Birth Defects, Proc. of Fourth International
Conference, Vienna, sponsored by the National Foundation-March of Dimes;
(1969-75) editor, American Journal of Human Genetics; 1962 "Medical
Genetics in the Pacific Area", Eugenics Quarterly, vol. 9, #1
Source: SB 1988-93; Osborne list; Wm. Allan Award, AJHG Oct. 13, 1970, p.
105
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Mudd, Mrs. Emily H. - 1954-62
Personal:
Director, Marriage Council of Philadelphia 1954-62
Publications:
Marriage Counseling: a casebook. Ed. w/ Abraham Stone q.v. 1958; Man and
Wife: a source book of family attitudes, sexual behavior and marriage
counseling. 1957 ed. w/ Aron Krich) based on a course organized by the
Family Study Division of the Dept. of Psychiatry, Univ. of Pennsylvania;
"Psychiatry and marital problems: mental health indications" Eugenics
Quarterly 1955, 2, 110-117 ("marriage ... the concern not only of
marriage counseling centers but of doctors and public health workers"
Psychological Abstracts 1927-58); The Practice of Marriage Counseling.
1951 (includes sketch of history of marriage counseling);
Background:
read final draft of Female Sexual Behavior for Alfred Kinsey; the
Marriage Council may have been inspired by the English Marriage Advisory
Service, which, oddly, was funded by the Home Office, England, that is,
the police; this reminds one that Kinsey had files on the odd sexual
habits of many powerful men.
Source: EQ 1954-62; Marriage Guidance Council annual reports; life of
Kinsey
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Murphy, Prof. Gardner - 1947-71; Member 1974
Personal:
American Psychological Association (Pres.); Professor of Psychology, City
College, NY 1947-52; Menninger Foundation (195370; Director of Research
1953-68; in 1952-53 the Menninger Foundation launched a $1,365,000 three
year research program); George Washington University 1971; Member,
American Society of Human Genetics 1954
Source: EN 1947-53; EQ 1954-68; SB 1969-71 (June 1971); Osborne list;
Membership list, American Society of Human Genetics, AJHG 1954
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Murray Jr., Robert F. - 1972-77
Personal:
b. 1931; MD Univ. of Rochester 1958; Fellowship, Univ. of Heidelberg
1956; Fellowship, Univ. of Washington 1965-67; research grant, NIH
1969-71; Howard University, Washington, D.C. (Prof. of Pediatrics
1967-(1980); chief, div, of medical genetics, 1969-(1980); chmn.,
graduate dept. of genetics and human genetics 1980); Adv. Bd, National
Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation Inc. 1980; Bd.dirs., Hastings Center
1971-(1980), 1994; "More of the Best" (brief profiles of the nation's
leading black doctors), 1988 Black Enterprise, v. 19, Oct. 1988, p. 94
Publications:
1991 "Skin color and blood pressure: genetics or environment"
(editorial)., JAMA, v. 256, Feb. 6, p. 639; 1988 "A Health Orientation
Scale: A Measure of Feelings About Sickle Cell Trait", Social Biology, v.
35, 1-2
Source: SB 1972 (December)-77; Osborne list
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Mazur, Alan - Spring 1992
Personal: Syracuse Univ. 1992
Source: SB Spring 1992
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Newcombe, Howard - Dec. 1972-1974
Personal:
Atomic Energy Commission of Canada 1972-74; Newcombe used government
computers to show how various records could be linked by computers to
build pedigrees (a genetic file) on people without their knowledge or
consent. Genetic files can be used to deny insurance.; American Society
of Human Genetics, v.p. 1962
Publications:
1992 "The Use of Names for Linking Personal Records" w/ Pierre Lalonde
and Martha E. Fair, Journal of the American Statistical Association, v.
87, Dec., p. 1193 and "Rejoinder" in same issue p. 1207; 1988 Handbook of
Record Linkage: Methods for Health and Statistical Studies, Oxford;
"Family Linkage of Population Records" 1962 in The Use of Vital
Statistics for Genetic and Radiation Studies. WHO, United Nations;
"Population genetics: Population Records" 1962 in Methodology in Human
Genetics. (Ed.) W. Burdette; "Pedigrees for Population Studies: a
progress report" in Cold Spring Harbor Symposia for Quantitative Biology.
29:21-30; "Use of Vital Statistics" in Proc. of World Population
Conference 1965. vol. 2, United Nations
Source: SB Dec. 1972-74
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Notestein, Frank W. - Director 1950-56; Member 1974
Personal:
b. 1902; PhD (economics) Cornell 1927; d. Feb. 22, 1983; lived in
Newtown, Pennsylvania 1983; PhD; Researcher, Milbank Memorial Fund
1928-1936; Office of Population Research, Princeton, New Jersey (Founder,
1936, Director, 1950-56); Princeton, Professor of Demography 1936-59;
Birth Control Federation of America, Advisory Council 1939; Director,
Population Division, Dept. of Social Affairs, United Nations 1946-48;
Chmn., technical advisory cttee, 1950 Census (see P. M. Hauser);
Population Council (Founding trustee, 1953; Pres. 1959-1968); Population
Association of America (Pres., 1946-47)
Publications:
1971 "Reminiscences: The Role of Foundations, the Population Association
of America, Princeton University and the United Nations in Fostering
American Interest in Population Problems", Milbank Memorial Fund
Quarterly, Oct., v. 49, #4, no. 2, p. 67; 1970 "Zero Population Growth:
What is it?", Family Planning Perspectives, v. 2, #3, June, p. 20; 1968
`The Population Council and the Demographic Crisis of the Less Developed
World", Demography, v. 5, #2, p. 553; 1951 "Population", Scientific
American, Sept.; 1950 "The Population of the World in the Year 2000",
Journal of the American Statistical Association; 1944 The Future
Population of Europe and the Soviet Union: population projections,
1940-70, w/ Dudley Kirk q.v., Ansley Coale q.v. and others (Geneva,
League of Nations); 1944 "Problems of Policy in Relation to Areas of
Heavy Population Pressure" in Demographic Studies of Selected Areas of
Rapid Growth, New York, Milbank Memorial Fund; 1943 "Some Implications of
Population Change for Post-War Europe", Proc. American Philosophical
Society; 1940 Controlled Fertility: an evaluation of clinic service,
patients of the birth control clinical research bureau in New York City,
assigned to authors by the Milbank Memorial Fund) Williams and Wilkins
Background:
endorsed federal population center in NICHHD; supported government
research in contraception; his book The Future Population of Europe and
the Soviet Union: population projections, 1940-70, published in 1944
played a role in the establishment of the UN population commisssion in
the Economic and Social Council which he later headed
Destruction of Family:
Notestein argued that "the destruction of the large traditional family
was necessary not only for the indirect effect on economic growth via the
reduction of fertility but also for its direct effect in producing a
society more attuned to the moden economy", according to John Caldwell
(q.v.) in Limiting Population Growth and the Ford Foundation , (1986) p.
26. He cites "Economic Problems of Population Change" by Notestein in
8th International Conference of Agricultural Economists, 1953 as an
example of Notestein's reasoning. He says this paper argued for
"experimental social engineering." (1986 Caldwell, p. 26)
Source: EN 1950-53; Osborne list; Obit, New York Times, Feb. 2, 1983;
"The Population Association Comes of Age" EN 1952-53 p. 108; EN 1953 p.
96; EQ 1954-56; BCR, 1940, editorial page; BCR, Feb./March 1939
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