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ERIC Number: EJ293955
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1983
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How to Curb the Fertility of the Unfit: The Feeble Minded in Edwardian Britain.
Barker, David
Oxford Review of Education, v9 n3 p197-211 1983
Eugenists in Edwardian Great Britain believed that society was in imminent danger because degenerate individuals were outbreeding normal people. Four strategies to prevent the unfit from reproducing--regulation, birth control, sterilization, and segregation--are discussed as well as the political and social climate in which eugenics developed. (IS)
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Contraception, Foreign Countries, Identification, Mental Retardation, Population Trends, Public Policy, Reproduction (Biology), Social Class
Publication Type: Historical Materials; Speeches/Meeting Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Eugenics; Great Britain