American Eugenics Society
- American Eugenics Society
Infobox Organization
name = Society for the Study of Social Biology
size = (image size, optional, default 200px)
caption = Current logo of the "Society for the Study of Social Biology"
formation = 1922
location = United States
language = (official languages)
leader_title = President
leader_name = S. Jay Olshansky
website = http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~crimmin/sssb/index.html
The American Eugenics Society (AES) was a society established in 1922 to promote eugenics in the United States.
It was the result of the Second International Conference on Eugenics (New York, 1921). The founders included Madison Grant, Harry H. Laughlin, Irving Fisher, Henry Fairfield Osborn, and Henry Crampton. The organization started by promoting racial betterment, eugenic health, and genetic education through public lectures, exhibits at county fairs ea., but under the direction of Frederick Osborn, started to place greater focus on issues of population control, genetics, and, later, medical genetics. In 1972 the AES was reorganized and renamed in "The Society for the Study of Social Biology"
List of Presidents
* Irving Fisher 1922-26 (Political Economy, Yale University)
* Roswell H. Johnson 1926-27 (Cold Spring Harbor, Univ. of Pittsburgh)
* Harry H. Laughlin 1927-29 (Eugenics Record Office)
* C. C. Little 1929 (Pres., Michigan University)
* Henry Pratt Fairchild 1929-31 (Sociology, New York University)
* Henry Perkins 1931-34 (Zoology, University of Vermont)
* Ellsworth Huntington 1934-38 (Geography, Yale University)
* Samuel Jackson Holmes 1938-40 (Zoology, University of California)
* Maurice Bigelow 1940-45 (sex education, Columbia University)
* Frederick Osborn 1946-52 (Osborn-Dodge-Harriman RR connection)
* Harry L. Shapiro 1956-63 (American Museum of Natural History)
* Clyde V. Kiser 1964-68 (differential fertility, Milbank Memorial Fund)
* Dudley Kirk 1969-72 (Demographer, Stanford University)
* Bruce K. Eckland 1972-75 (Sociology, University of North Carolina)
* L. Erlenmeyer-Kimling 1976-78 (Genetic Psychiatry)
* Lindzey Gardner 1979-81 (Center for Advanced Study, Behavioral Sciences)
* John L. Fuller 1982-83 (Behavioral genetics)
* Michael Teitelbaum 1985-1990 (US Congress staff; US population policy)
* Robert Retherford 1991-1994 (East-West Institute, Hawaii; funded by AID)
* Joseph Lee Rodgers 1994, 1995 (family influences)
* Current: S. Jay Olshansky
See also
* British Eugenics Society
* Human Betterment Foundation
External links
* [http://www.all.org/abac/aes.txt American Eugenics Society 1922-1994] via American Bioethics Advisory Commission
* [http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~crimmin/sssb/index.html The Society for the Study of Social Biology]
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