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Harry Hamilton Laughlin (March 11, 1880 – January 26, 1943) was an American educator and eugenicist. He served as the superintendent of the Eugenics Record Office from its inception in 1910 to its closure in 1939, and was among the most active individuals influencing American eugenics policy, especially compulsory sterilization ...
19 de dez. de 2014 · Harry Hamilton Laughlin helped lead the eugenics movement in the United States during the early twentieth century. The US eugenics movement of the early twentieth century sought to reform the genetic composition of the United States population through sterilization and other restrictive reproductive measures.
17 de jun. de 2022 · Harry Hamilton Laughlin was born in Iowa in 1880. He studied agriculture and became a teacher, then a principal and superintendent. His studies led to an interest in genetics and breeding, an interest that impelled him to contact a man named Charles Davenport. Davenport served as director of the Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring ...
Abstract. Harry H. Laughlin's main claim to fame was as director of the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, from which position he exerted considerable influence upon early twentieth-century campaigns to restrict immigration and to institute compulsory sterilization of the socially inadequate.
- Jason McDonald
- 2013
Portrait of Harry Laughlin from A Decade of Progress in Eugenics (Baltimore, 1934) Harry Hamilton Laughlin was a leading American eugenicist in the first half of the 20th century. He was among the most active and energetic individuals influencing American eugenics policy.
12 de ago. de 2015 · Eugenical Sterilization in the United States is a 1922 book in which author Harry H. Laughlin argues for the necessity of compulsory sterilization in the United States based on the principles of eugenics.
3 de jul. de 2022 · It discusses how the eugenic research led by Charles B. Davenport (1866-1944) and by Harry H. Laughlin (1880-1943) assumed a central role between 1910 and 1930, understood by them as genetics applied to humans.
