CARLOS BLAKER PSYCHIATRIST AND EUGENICIST

                                                   By  Tom Leonard


                                                                           

                    Carlos Paton Blacker MC GM FRCP (8 December 1895 – 21 April 1975^[1]), also known as C. P. Blacker, was an eminent war hero, psychiatrist and eugenicist who worked with R.A. Fisher and Lionel Penrose                               

                                                          CARLOS BLAKER


From 1931 to 1952, Blacker was secretary of the Eugenics Society and he gave it a new focus on birth control and population planning. [1]. His appointment as Secretary was "not without some misgivings of [Leonard] Darwin, its chairman. The differences in outlook, aspirations and in judgement of these two men during their partnership in office in the Eugenics Society led to tensions which have been ably traced by Richard Soloway. Two prominent issues here were Darwin's reluctance to endorse Blacker's deep-rooted conviction that research and provision of contraception should be a major feature in the Eugenic Society's strategy to reduce the fecundity of the lower, less able classes and his disagreement with Blacker's aspiration to redirect more of the Eugenic Society's effort from education and propaganda to research and promotion of contraception."


                        THE FORSTER_LEONARD ARCHIVES ON GALTONIAN EUGENICS


                                      TO BE CONTINUED