Reactivation of the Dight Institute, 1947-1949: Counseling in human genetics

Reactivation of the Dight Institute, 1947-1949: Counseling in human genetics

Reed, Sheldon C. (Sheldon Clark), 1910-2003 (author)

Dight, Charles Fremont, 1856-1938

Eugenics

Dight Institute of the University of Minnesota

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Journals (periodicals)

Physician Charles F. Dight (1856-1938) was the first president of the Minnesota Eugenics Society and promoted the state’s adoption of a law for the sterilization of the feeble-minded and insane in 1925. He bequeathed his fortune to the University of Minnesota and so established the Charles Fremont Dight Institute for the Promotion of Human Genetics in 1941 to provide lectures, educational opportunities, and genetic counseling services to the public and foster research. In 1948, the Institute received 40,000 pedigrees—the working files of the Eugenics Record Office—from the Carnegie Institution. The Dight Institute was active until 1991.

Title page and one page excerpt from the Reactivation of the Dight Institute 1947-1949, in the Dight Institute Bulletin, no. 6 (1949)

Reed, Sheldon C. (Sheldon Clark), 1910-2003

University of Minnesota Press

1949

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Countway Library Bound Journals, Bulletin : Dight Institute of the University of Minnesota 1942-1951, no. 6, 1949

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