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Leaflets etc produced by associated bodies: Eugenics Alliance, Committee of Legalising Eugenic Sterilization/Joint Committee on Voluntary Sterilization

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1 The Eugenics Alliance 1920s-1930s. The folder contains: The Eugenics Alliance; Eugenics: Why the subject should interest You, Eugenics Alliance Leaflet No 1; H F Pocock Heredity and the C3 People in our Population; Henry A Mess The Power of Heredity (reprinted from THE LISTENER by courtesy of the British Broadcasting Corporation, Eugenics Alliance Leaflet no 3.
2-6 Committee for Legalising Eugenic Sterilization/Joint Committee on Voluntary Sterilization, 1920s-1930s
2 Cecil Binney The Law as to Sterilization.
3 Committee for Legalizing Eugenic Sterilization.
4 Paul Popenoe A Roman Catholic View of Sterilization, reprinted from The Journal of Social Hygiene, Vol XIV no 3 Mar 1928
5 Eugenic Sterilization reprinted from The Medical Officer, 30 Aug 1930
6 Joint Committee on Voluntary Sterilization Handbook for Speakers.

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Leaflets etc produced by associated bodies: Eugenics Alliance, Committee of Legalising Eugenic Sterilization/Joint Committee on Voluntary Sterilization

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