『Sir Francis Galton: From African Exploration to the Birth of Eugenics』

Nicholas Wright Gillham

(2001年刊行,Oxford University Press, Oxford, xii+416 pp., ISBN:0195143655

【目次】
Preface ix
Prologue - Francis Galton in Perspective 1


I. Antecedents and Beginnings

1 An enviable pedigree 13
2 Metamorphosis - From birth to medical school 23
3 A poll degree from Cambridge 37
4 Drifting 47


II. Geography and Exploration

5 South Africa 61
6 Making peace with Jonker Afrikaner 67
7 Expedition to Ovampoland 79
8 Fame and marriage 93
9 Riding high with the Royal Geographical Society - I. The great lakes of Africa 107
10 Riding high with the Royal Geographical Society - II. Stanley faces off with the geographers 123
11 Weather maps and the anticyclone 140


III. The Triumph of the Pedigree

12 Hereditary talent and character 155
13 Gemmules, rabbits, germs, and strips 173
14 Nature and nurture 187
15 Sweet peas and anthropometrics 195
16 Probing the mind 215
17 Fingerprints 231
18 The birth of biometrics 250
19 Galton's disciples 269
20 Evolution by jumps 286
21 The Mendelians trump the Biometricians 303
22 The triumph of the pedigree 324


Epilogue - Out of Pandora's Box: The First International Congress of Eugenics 345


Notes 359
Bibliography 390
Index 398