Abstract
THE eugenic movement has laid great stress on the burden imposed on the community by the existence in the population of about 1 per cent of mental defectives ; and extravagant statements have been made both for and against the possibility of reducing the incidence of mental defect by eugenic measures. Thus it has been stated, on one hand, that mental defect could largely be eliminated by the sterilization of defectives, and, on the other, that it could largely be controlled by prenatal hygiene or improved obstetrics.
A Clinical and Genetic Study of 1280 Cases of Mental Defect
By Dr. L. S. Penrose. Pp. 159+xiv. (Medical Research Council. Special Report Series, No. 229). (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1938) 2s. 6d. net.
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HALDANE, J. A Clinical and Genetic Study of 1280 Cases of Mental Defect. Nature 141, 575–576 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141575a0
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