Abstract
THIS book, which is edited by the secretary of the Eugenics Society, sets out to help the practitioner to answer three questions which, as the editor states in his admirable preface, are often asked. “Ought I to get married?”“If I get married, ought I to have children?”“If I get married and have children, what are the chances of their inheriting my disease, or a disease which occurs in my family?” Clearly only the third question can receive a scientific answer. Many believers in negative eugenics will question the advice given elsewhere in the book that sufferers from certain diseases should be sterilised before marriage. Such a course, among other “things, virtually sterilises a healthy spouse. Nor will the political views which are expressed by certain contributors meet with universal acceptance.
The Chances of Morbid Inheritance.
Edited by Dr. C. P. Blacker. Pp. xi + 449 + 7 plates. (London: H. K. Lewis and Co., Ltd., 1934.) 15s. net.
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H., J. The Chances of Morbid Inheritance . Nature 133, 664–665 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133664a0
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