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Sound minds and healthy bodies: Re‐considering eugenics in Australia, 1914–1940

Stephen Garton University of Sydney,
Pages 163-181 | Published online: 30 Sep 2008

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  • Cawte , Mary . 1986 . ‘Craniometry and Eugenics in Australia: R.J.A Berry and the Quest for Social Efficiency’ . Historical Studies , 22 : 35 – 53 .
  • McCallum , David . 1982–3 . ‘Eugenics,Psychology and Education in Australia’ . Melbourne Working Papers , : 17 – 33 .
  • Hyslop , Anthea . 1984 . “ ‘Arresting Race Deterioration: The Case for Child Welfare Reforms in Victoria 1900–1914’ ” . Melbourne unpublished paper, AHA conference
  • Davison , Graeme . 1983 . “ ‘The City‐bred Child and Urban Reform in Melbourne 1900–1940’ ” . In Social Process and the City Edited by: Williams , Peter . 143 – 74 . Sydney
  • Fitzpatrick , Moira . 1988 . “ ‘Preventing the Unfit from Breeding: The Mental Deficiency Bill in Western Australia, 1929’ ” . In Childhood and Society in Western Australia Edited by: Hetherington , Penelope . 144 – 60 . Nedlands
  • Thame , Claudia . 1974 . “ ‘Healthand the State: The Development of Collective Responsibility for Health Care in Australia in the First Half of the Twentieth Century’ ” . 155 – 7 . Australian National University .
  • Garton , Stephen . 1988 . >Medicine and Madness: A Social History of Insanity in New South Wales 1880–1940 76 – 9 . Sydney
  • Bostock , John and Nye , Ronald . 1936 . Whither Away ? A Study of Race Psychology and the Factors Leading to Australia's Decline Sydney
  • Addison , P.K.L. 1929 . “ ‘Sterilisation’ ” . In Australian Racial Hygiene Congress 64 – 6 . Sydney
  • Booth , Angela . 1938 . Voluntary Sterilization for Human Betterment Melbourne
  • Garton , Stephen . 1986 . ‘Sir Charles Mackellar: Psychiatry, Eugenics and Child Welfare in New South Wales 1900–1914’ . Historical Studies , 22 : 21 – 34 .
  • Reiger , Kerreen . 1985 . The Disenchantment of the Home: Modernizing the Australian Family 1880–1940 Melbourne
  • McCallum , David . 1990 . The Social Production of Merit: Education, Psychology and Politics in Australia 1900–1950 London
  • Walker , David . 1987 . “ ‘Mindand Body’ ” . In Australians 1938 Edited by: Gammage , Bill and Spearritt , Peter . 223 – 34 . Sydney
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  • Roe , Jill . 1986 . Beyond Belief: Theosophy in Australia 1879–1939 Sydney
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  • Bessant , Judith . 1991 . ‘Described, Measured and Labelled: Eugenics, Youth Policy and Moral Panic in Victoria in the 1950s’ . Journal of Australian Studies , : 8 – 28 . no. 31
  • Stanton , Vicki . 1992 . “ ‘The Racial Hygiene Association of New South Wales 1926–1940: A Case Study of the Interrelationship of Eugenics and Social Reform’ ” . University of Wollongong . B.A. Hons thesis
  • Bourke , Helen . 1981 . ‘Sociologyand the Social Sciences in Australia 1912–1928’ . Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology , 17 ( 1 ) : 26 – 35 .
  • Roe , Michael . 1984 . Nine Australian Progressives: Vitalism and Bourgeois Social Thought 1890–1960 315 – 20 . Brisbane
  • 1949 . The Nature‐Nurture Controversy New York
  • 1974 . ‘Efficiency: The Fascist Dynamic in American Progressivism’ . Teaching History , 8 : 38 – 55 . pt. 2
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  • 1917 . ‘Foreword’ . Mental Hygiene , 1 ( 1 ) January : 1 – 2 .
  • Roe , Michael . Nine Australian Progressives , 280 – 310 .
  • Morris Miller , E. 1928 . Summarized Report of Distributions and Inter‐Correlations of Binet and Performance Test Values Obtained from Children in a Mental Survey 3 – 10 . Sydney
  • 1921 . Editorial,‘The Public Health Association’ . Medical Journal of Australia (hereafter MJA) , 1 June : 465 – 6 .
  • Morris Miller , E. 1923 . The Mental Hygiene Movement and Organisation in Australia Sydney
  • Noble , Ralph . 1924 . ‘SomeObservations on the Treatment of the Feeble‐minded in Great Britain and America’ . MJA , 2 July : 31 – 6 .
  • 1929 . ‘Mental Hygiene’ . MJA , 2 October : 511 – 12 .
  • 1923 . ‘A Message from Australia’ . Mental Hygiene , 7 April : 430 – 4 . Mayo's interest is apparent in
  • Bourke , Helen . 1982 . ‘Industrial Unrest as Social Pathology: The Australian Writings of Elton Mayo’ . Historical Studies , 20 : 217 – 33 . Elton's wider career and interests are detailed in
  • 1968 . ‘Ralph Noble: Obituary’ . MJA , 2 July : 41
  • 1930 . MJA , 1 June : 793 – 6 .
  • Connell , W.F. 1980 . The Australian Council of Educational Research 1930–1980 Melbourne
  • Morris Miller , E. 1911 . Moral Action and Natural Law in Kant Melbourne
  • 1924 . The Basis of Freedom: A Study of Kant's Theory Sydney
  • 1912 . Libraries and Education 26 – 44 . Melbourne
  • Roe , Michael . Nine Australian Progressives , 1 – 20 .
  • Campbell , Craig . 1976 . “ ‘Liberalism in Australian History 1880–1920’ ” . In Social Policy in Australia: Some Perspectives 1901–1975 Edited by: Roe , Jill . 24 – 33 . Sydney On the new liberal contribution, see
  • Pocock , J.G.A. 1971 . Politics, Language and Time: Essays on Political Thought and History 80 – 103 . New York
  • Morris Miller , E. 1923 . ‘Mental Deficiency and Crime’ . Mercury , 5 June
  • 1925 . ‘Influences of the Environment’ . Examiner , 7 September
  • 1925 . ‘Child Delinquents’ . Voice of Labour , 27 August
  • 1924 . ‘MentalDeficients’ . News , 29 July
  • Morris Miller , E. 1923 . ‘Mental Hygiene and the Teacher’ . Advocate , 5 July
  • Garton , Stephen . Medicine and Madness , 52 – 145 .
  • Head , Brian and Walter , James , eds. 1988 . “ ‘Freud and the Psychiatrists: The Australian Debate 1900–1940’ ” . In Intellectual Movements and Australian Society 170 – 87 . Melbourne
  • Noble , Ralph . 1923 . ‘Psycho‐Therapy in Practice’ . MJA , 2 December : 564 – 5 .
  • Maudsley , H.K. 1923 . ‘TheRelationship between Psychological Processes and Physiological Reflex Mechanisms’ . Australasian Medical Congress Transactions , : 400 – 403 .
  • Bostock , John . 1927 . ‘TheComposite Point of View as to the Causation of Mental Disorder’ . Australasian Medical Congress Transactions , : 110 – 13 .
  • Noble , Ralph . 1924 . ‘The Detection and Prevention of Mental Deficiency’ . MJA , 1 June : 400 – 3 .
  • 1926 . ‘Diagnosis of Cerebral Syphilis: Reply’ . MJA , 2 October : 460
  • 1927 . ‘Epilepsy in Childhood’ . MJA , 1 May : 798
  • 1928 . ‘The Integration Concept and Psychiatry: Reply’ . MJA , 1 March : 284
  • Dane , Paul . 1923 . ‘The Psychology of the Criminal’ . MJA , 2 December : 643
  • Ellery , R.S. and Lear , D.C. 1938 . ‘Report on the Results of Cardiazol Convulsion Therapy’ . MJA , 2 December : 779 – 81 .
  • Noble . ‘Detectionand Prevention of Mental Deficiency’ . 401
  • Roe , Michael . Nine Australian Progressives , 1 – 20 . For further discussions of this issue, see
  • Walker , David . 1992 . ‘Introduction: Australian Modern: Modernism and its Enemies 1900–1940’ . Journal of Australian Studies , March : 1 – 6 .
  • Phillips , G.E. 1923 . ‘TheMeasurement of the Intelligence of School Children’ . MJA , 1 June : 620
  • Miller . The Mental Hygiene Movement and Organization , 4
  • Noble . ‘The Detection and Prevention of Mental Deficiency’ . 401
  • Sutton , Harvey . 1935 . ‘MentalHygiene’ . MJA , 1 April : 422
  • Agar , W.E. 1939 . Eugenics and the Future of the Australian Population 3 Melbourne
  • Miller . The Mental Hygiene Movement and Organization , 4
  • 1930 . MJA , 1 June : 793 – 6 .
  • Sutton . ‘MentalHygiene’ . 417 – 24 .
  • Gutteridge , M.V. 1931 . ‘The Mental Hygiene of Childhood’ . MJA , 1 January : 107 – 8 .
  • Wrigley , L.J. 1932 . “ ‘The Development of Character in the Growing Child’ ” . In The Growing Child 1 – 13 . 50 – 72 . Melbourne in Victorian Council of Mental Hygiene
  • Miller . 1925 . ‘MentalHygiene and the Teacher’ . Ungraded , 10 May : 183 – 7 .
  • Lawton , J.T. ‘The Child and the Community’ . The Growing Child. , in Victorian Council for Mental Hygiene
  • McCallum . The Social Production of Merit , 65 – 100 .
  • 1924 . Editorial,‘Mental Hygiene in Industry’ . MJA , 2 December : 629 – 30 .
  • Morris Miller , E. 1926 . ‘The Psychologist in Service’ . Australasian Journal of Psychology and Philosophy , 4 June : 91 – 103 .
  • 1925 . Editorial, ‘Mental Hygiene’ . MJA , 1 April : 343 – 4 .

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