Proceedings of the 1977 Eugenics Society conference edited by W. H. G.
Armytage and John Peel
"This volume records the Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Symposium of the Eugenics Society, which was held to assess the impact of current programmes of social repair, or, in other words, those acts of
professional intervention designed to remedy or alleviate the failure of natural social processes.
Questions raised and answered at the Symposium centred on the fundamental doubt as to whether the present framework of social repair is as satisfactory as it might be: is more support, financial or otherwise, needed for families including a member with a handicap or genetic disorder?
Can education for girls be so restructured as to counteract the lower levels of aspiration and self-confidence found at present?
What is, and what should be, the role of the Health Centre, which covers mental, physical and social problems, from family planning to geriatric assessment?
What correlation is there between patterns of mortality and styles of life and work?
How preventive is medicine?
These and many other issues are tackled in the text of this book, which presents the views of a wide variety of acknowledged experts, and avoids, by this diversity, any insistent ‘personal view’.
It attempts to unravel the myths and dilemmas of social repair as a first step towards establishing better systems of education, health service and social organization generally.
Its broadly-based treatment of the subject, encompassing biology, education, medicine and sociology, will be of interest to students and
professionals in all these disciplines, and it will become an important reference work in the future for Social Service departments and Area Health Authorities." (From the
dust jacket of the book)
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