The real "toll" of A. G. Bell: Lessons about eugenics

Sign Language Studies

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Greenwald, Brian H ^a  

^a GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 70349588104     PISSN: 03021475     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/sls.0.0020     Document Type: Note

References (10)

1. Alexander Graham Bell, "Marriage: Address to the Deaf," Volta Bureau (Washington, D.C.: Gibson Bros, Printers and Bookbinders, 1891), 3-4
2. Alexander Graham Bell, "A Few Thoughts concerning Eugenics," National Geographic Magazine (February 1908): 119
3. Bell to Davenport, Mar. II, 1904, American Philosophical Society, Charles B. Davenport Papers, B/D27 (henceforth CBD Papers)
4. Bell passed away in 1922. The eugenics movement in the United States declined after 1935 due to the horrific medical experiments in Nazi Germany
5. Davenport to Bell, Dec. 8, 1909, CBD Papers
6. Carl N. Degler, In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Social Darwinism in American Social Thought (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), 43
7. Bell to Davenport, Dec. 27, 1912, CBD Papers
8. Alexander Graham Bell, "The Deaf-Mutes of Martha's Vineyard," American Annals of the Deaf 31(3): 282-84
9. For additional information on deafness on Martha's Vineyard, see Nora Ellen Groce, Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha's Vineyard (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985)
10. Alexander Graham Bell, Eugenics, Genetics, and the Family: Scientific Papers of the Second International Congress of Eugenics, vol. 1, ed. Charles Benedict Davenport (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1923), plate 4