'Wanted-standard guinea pigs': standardisation and the experimental animal market in Britain ca. 1919-1947 [0.03%]
《悬赏“标准实验兔”——英国标准化实验动物市场的兴起约1919-1947》
Robert G W Kirk
Robert G W Kirk
In 1942 a coalition of twenty scientific societies formed the Conference on the Supply of Experimental Animals (CSEA) in an attempt to pressure the Medical Research Council to accept responsibility for the provision of standardised experime...
Onward, Christian penguins: wildlife film and the image of scientific authority [0.03%]
基督企鹅前进吧——野生动物电影与科学权威的形象
Rebecca Wexler
Rebecca Wexler
Within US media reactions to March of the penguins, animal images became an arena for displaced conflicts of human interest. This paper examines an intermediary step through which the film became a medium for social disagreement: conflict o...
Eugenics, politics and the state: social democracy and the Swiss 'gardening state' [0.03%]
优生学、政治和国家:社会民主主义与瑞士的“园艺国家”
Véronique Mottier
Véronique Mottier
This article explores the connections between eugenics, politics and the state, taking the Swiss case as a particular focus. It is argued that Switzerland provides a historical example of what Bauman [Bauman, Z. (1989). Modernity and the Ho...
Natalia Gerodetti
Natalia Gerodetti
Against the background of degeneration and the perceived threat to the nation's health and stock, family politics came to constitute an important site for eugenic discourses and interventions. Eugenic regulation of reproductive sexuality an...
Eugenics, sexual pedagogy and social change: constructing the responsible subject of governmentality in the Spanish Second Republic [0.03%]
优生学、性教学与社会变革:西班牙第二共和国时期负责任的国民主体之建构
Belén Jiménez-Alonso
Belén Jiménez-Alonso
This study focuses on eugenics in Spain, and more specifically on the 'official' eugenics whose platform was the Primeras Jornadas Eugénicas Españolas (First Spanish Eugenic Days, FSED). The aim of this paper is to relate eugenics to 'gov...
Alison Sinclair
Alison Sinclair
This paper starts from a premise relating to the act of fictional writing about eugenics and the way it may be understood as the embodiment and enactment of social imaginaries. It proposes that literature (in the sense of fiction) frequentl...
Eugenics without the state: anarchism in Catalonia, 1900-1937 [0.03%]
没有国家的优生学:加泰罗尼亚的无政府主义运动(1900-1937)
Richard Cleminson
Richard Cleminson
Current historiography has considered eugenics to be an emanation from state structures or a movement which sought to appeal to the state in order to implement eugenic reform. This paper examines the limitations of that view and argues that...
John Stuart Mill, innate differences, and the regulation of reproduction [0.03%]
约翰·斯图尔特·密尔、天赋差异以及生育的规制
Diane B Paul,Benjamin Day
Diane B Paul
In this paper, we show that the question of the relative importance of innate characteristics and institutional arrangements in explaining human difference was vehemently contested in Britain during the first half of the nineteenth century....
Artificial insemination and eugenics: celibate motherhood, eutelegenesis and germinal choice [0.03%]
人工授精与优生学:独身母亲、优质婴儿诞生和生殖选择
Martin Richards
Martin Richards
This paper traces the history of artificial insemination by selected donors (AID) as a strategy for positive eugenic improvement. While medical artificial insemination has a longer history, its use as a eugenic strategy was first mooted in ...