Abstracts of Papers Read at the First International Eugenics Congress University of London, July, 1912

"Abstracts of Papers Read at the First International Eugenics Congress" by International Eugenics Congress (1st : 1912 : London) is a collection of summaries from a London convention in 1912, where experts in science fields discussed eugenics and heredity. The book examines connections between genetics, society, and what they could mean for future families through papers from biologists, anthropologists, sociologists, and doctors.. The collection starts by setting the stage for the eugenics movement, summarizing papers about things like heredity, how fit people are mentally and physically, how old parents are when they have kids, and how eugenics affects society and the economy. Work from people like Professor G. Sergi, Soren Hansen, and Professor V. Guiffrida-Ruggeri share studies about how people are different, rules of inheritance, and how thinking skills and wealth and status affect each other. These beginning sections lead into a bigger conversation about using these scientific ideas to try to make human populations better, looking at tricky connections between genes, what society thinks is normal, and the chance to control who has children.