Month: December 2018
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Happy Christmas
This is the last post in 2018 and, to finish the year, I will leave you with a story relating to Dr Sutherland’s work in the slums of St Marylebone, London, between 1910 and 1914. From the dispensary I attended the consumptive poor of Marylebone. There was William James; at the age of thirty-five he…
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Galton
Recent articles in The Guardian and the Daily Mail described a controversial decision at University College London (UCL) to name a building after Sir Francis Galton, the founder modern eugenics. Both papers present British eugenics as a distasteful, but victimless, idea. It wasn’t and, as I will explain, tens of thousands of Britons died as a result of…
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Town Hall, Sydney
During Dr Halliday Sutherland ‘s Australian tour of 1939-40 he spoke at the Town Hall in Sydney on Family Limitation, Euthanasia, Birth Control and anthropophobia.