Concept 14 Mendelian genetics cannot fully explain human health and behavior.

Links

Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement

Explore documents and photographs of the Eugenics movement from the early decades of the 20th century. Read annotated essays from social historians on subjects relating to the Eugenics movement.

DNA Interactive: Chronicle

Examine the Chronicle of how society dealt with mental illness and other "dysgenic" traits in the final section of our website DNA Interactive. Meet four individuals who became objects of the eugenic movement's zeal to cleanse society of "bad" genes during the first half of the 20th century. Then meet a modern-day heroine for an account of mental illness and the lesson it holds for living in the gene age.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

This site has a short history on the development of the current research facilities from the Biological Laboratories and the Station for Experimental Evolution.

The Center for Bioethics

The University of Pennslyvania has an web site where articles and comments on bioethical subjects are posted.

National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)

NHGRI was established in 1989 to head the Human Genome Project for the National Institute of Health. NHGRI runs the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications program (ELSI) to deal with issues from the mapping and sequencing of the human genome.

Bibliography

• Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1919, Naval Officers, Their Heredity and Development, Carnegie Institution of Washington.
• Rushton, Alan R., 1994, Genetics and Medicine in the United States 1800 to 1922, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
• Snyder, Laurence H., 1946, Charles Benedict Davenport: a Biography, Genetics, 31: frontpiece, Genetics Society of America.