Title: Eugenics, socialism and artificial insemination: the public career of Herbert Brewer
Abstract: The article considers the life and work of autodidact eugenist Herbert Brewer (1897–1968). He promoted 'eutelegenesis' (artificial insemination for eugenic purposes) from the nineteen-thirties to the nineteen-sixties. Brewer also tried to reconcile the views of eugenists and socialists. Using his correspondence with the Eugenics Society, and published and unpublished pro-eugenics literature, the article regards Brewer as far from successful in these tasks. But it argues throughout that eutelegenesis and reform eugenics were a revival of Francis Galton's original doctrine and that socialist eugenics is intellectually coherent. Fuller details about Brewer are given than in previous scholarship.
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-06-26
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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