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Binnie Dunlop

Binnie Dunlop

Scottish eugenics advocate (1874–1946)

Binnie Dunlop (3 August 1874[1] – 15 July 1946) was a Scottish medical doctor and advocate of eugenics.[2]

Dunlop, the son of a Glasgow doctor, studied medicine at Glasgow University, graduating M.B. (1898)[1] and Ch.B. However, he never practiced medicine, instead studying social and economic questions.[2] He joined the Malthusian League in 1910, and was probably the author of the League's 1913 pamphlet Hygienic Methods of Birth Control.[3] He held office in the Malthusian League as Honorary Secretary and Treasurer, and was editor of The Malthusian from 1918 to 1921.[2]

Works

  • National happiness under individualism. An explanation and solution of the poverty and riches problem, 1909
  • (anon.) Hygienic methods of family limitation, 1913
  • 'Over-population as a cause of war', in Eden and Cedar Paul, eds., Population and Birth-control: a symposium, 1917

References

  1. [1]
    Graduate Record for Binnie Dunlop
  2. [2]
    Charles Vickery Drysdale, Binne Dunlop, Eugenics Review 38 (Oct. 1946), p.146
  3. [3]
    Rosanna Ledbetter, History of the Malthusian League, 1877–1927, Ohio State University Press, 1986, pp.206-9


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