Conferences 1989 to 2005 – Adelphi Genetics Forum

Proceedings of Conferences (1989-2005)

The proceedings of conferences held by The Galton Institute were published 1989-2005. Some of these are available to download below.

Proceedings of conferences

▼ Human Ability: Genetic and Environmental Influences - 2005

Proceedings of the 2005 Galton Institute conference.

Main contents:

1. Giftedness in the Long Term
Joan Freeman

2. Spearman’s g: Past, Present, and Future
Douglas K Detterman

3. Galton Lecture 2005: Taking Social Intelligence Seriously
Robin Dunbar

4. IQ and The Chinese Experience: A Treasury of Facts
Louise Higgins

5. Follow-up Studies of the Scottish Mental Surveys of 1932 and 1947
Ian Deary

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▼ Herbert Spencer - The intellectual legacy - 2003

Publication Date: 2003

Editor: Greta Jones, Robert A. Peel

Publication contents:

1. Spencer and his Circle
Greta Jones

2. The Relation of Spencer’s Evolutionary Theory to Darwin’s
Robert J. Richards

3. The Diffusion of Spencerism and its Political Interpretations in France and Italy
Naomi Beck

4. Herbert Spencer’s Influence on Economics
John Laurent

5. Herbert Spencer and Altruism: The Sternness and Kindness of a Victorian Moralist
Thomas Dixon

6. Galton Lecture 2003: Spencer In History: The Second Century
J.D.Y. Peel
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▼ A century of Mendelism in human genetics - 2001

Publication Date: 2001

Editor: Milo Keynes, A.W.F. Edwards, Robert Peel

Publication contents:

Part 1. The First Fifty Years of Mendelism

1. The Introduction of Mendelism into Human Genetics
Milo Keynes

2. Galton’s Theory of Ancestral Inheritance
Michael Bulmer

3. The Reception of Mendelism by the Biometricians and the Early Mendelians
Eileen Magnello

4. Mendelism and Man 1918-1939
A.W.F. Edwards

5. The Darwin Lecture: William Bateson, Archibald Garrod and the Nature of the ‘Inborn’
Patrick Bateson

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▼ A century of Mendelism - 2000

Publication Date: 2000

Editor: Robert A. Peel, John Timson

Publication contents:

Introduction
John Timson

The Rediscovery of Mendelism
Peter Bowler

Genetics in the New Millennium
Mark Ridley

Genetic Counselling: Its Scope and Limitations
Robert G Resta

Problems of Genetic Engineering
Colin Tudge

Genetic Issues in Insurance and Employment: How to Prevent Unfair Discrimination
Sandy Raeburn
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▼ Human pedigree studies - 1998

Publication Date: 1998

Editor: Robert A. Peel

Publication contents:

Genealogy: The Construction of Family Histories
Anthony Camp

The Galton Lecture 1998: Eugenics: The Pedigree Years
Pauline Mazumdar

Human Pedigrees and Human Genetics
Elizabeth Thompson

A Brief History of the Pedigree in Human Genetics
Robert Resta

Computers for Research, Storage and Presentation of Family Histories
David Hawgood

Social, Ethical and Technical Implications of Pedigree Construction:What The Maps Tell Us About the Mapmakers
Robert Resta
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▼ Essays in the history of eugenics - 1997

Publication Date: 1997

Editor: Robert A. Peel

Publication contents:

The Theoretical Foundations of Eugenics
Greta Jones

Eugenics: The Early Years
Geoffrey Searle

Women, Feminism and Eugenics
Lesley Hall

From Mainline to Reform Eugenics – Leonard Darwin and C P Blacker
Richard Soloway

The Eugenics Society and the Development of Demography in Britain: The International Population Union, the British Population Society and the Population Investigation Committee
Chris Langford

Human Genetics
John Timson

Ninety Years of Psychometrics
Paul Kline

The Galton Lecture: “The Eugenics Society and the Development of Biometry”
Anthony Edwards

Eugenics in France and Scandinavia: Two Case Studies
Alain Drouard

Eugenics in North America
Daniel Kevles
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▼ Marie Stopes, eugenics and the English birth control movement - 1996

Publication Date: 1996

Editor: Robert A. Peel

Publication contents:

The Evolution of Marie Stopes

June Rose

Marie Stopes and her Correspondents: Personalising population decline in an era of demographic change

Lesley Hall

The Galton Lecture: “Marie Stopes, Eugenics and the Birth Control Movement”

Richard Soloway

Marie Stopes and the Mothers’ Clinics

Deborah Cohen

“Marie Stopes: Secret Life” – A Comment

John Timson

Marie Stopes International Today

Patricia Hindmarsh
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▼ Biological and social aspect of intelligence - 1995

Publication Date: 1995

Publication contents:

Session 1: The Nature of Intelligence

The importance of intelligence in Western societies
C. R. Brand

Reductionism and intelligence: the case of inspection time
Ian J. Deary

Intelligence is not just mental speed
Patrick Rabbitt

Session 2: Physical Factors

A healthy body and a healthy mind: the relationship between ill-health and cognitive function in school-age children
C. Nokes

The supply of glucose to the brain and cognitive functioning
David Benton, Pearl Y. Parker and Rachael T. Donohoe

The influence of early diet on later development
Ruth Morley

Session 3: Genetic Issues

Molecular genetic research on IQ: can it be done? Should it be done?
Jo Daniels, Peter McGuffin and Mike Owen

Genetic influences on mild mental retardation: concepts, findings and research implications
Michael Rutter, Emily Simonoff and Robert Plomin

Behaviour genetic studies of intelligence, yesterday and today: the long journey from plausibility to proof (The Galton Lecture)
Thomas Bouchard

Session 4: Social and Group Differences

Sex differences and IQN.
J. Mackintosh

Group differences: is the good society impossible?
James R. Flynn

What genetic research on intelligence tells us about the environment
Robert Plomin, Stephen A. Petrill and Alexandra L. Cutting

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▼ Stress: evolutionary, biosocial and clinical perspectives - 1994

Publication Date: 1994

Editor: Alan H. Bittles, Peter A. Parsons

Publication contents:

1. Long-term Responses to Physical Stress: Evidence from the Fossil Record
Peter R. Sheldon

2. Environmental Stress and Evolutionary Adaptation
R.J. Berry

3. The Galton Lecture for 1994: From Energy Budgets to Adaptive Limits under Stress: Sexual Ornaments, Senescence, and Outlier Human Populations
Peter A. Parsons

4. Population Differences in Blood Pressure Genes
Nicholas D. Carter

5. Sub-threshold Effects of Maternal Alcohol Consumption on Craniodental Development
Jules A. Kieser

6. The Assessment of Stress in Traditional Societies
Lincoln H. Schmitt

7. Stress, Gender and Leadership
Marianne Frankenhaeuser

8. Stress, Work, and Health: the Role of Individual Differences
Katherine R. Parkes

9. Stress in Hospital Patients
Jenifer Wilson-Barnett

10. Cardiovascular Disease and Stress: from Aetiology to Intervention
Andrew Steptoe

11. Psychosocial Stress and Cancer
Hans J. Eysenck

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▼ Reproduction decisions: biological and social perspectives - 1993

Publication Date: 1993

Editor: R.I.M. Dunbar

Publication contents:

1. An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human Fertility
R.I.M. Dunbar

2. Breastfeeding and the Baby: Natural Contraception
Alan S. McNeilly

3. Understanding Natural Variation in Human Ovarian Function
Peter T. Ellison

4. Nutrition, Physical Workloads and Fertility Regulation
Lyliane Rosetta

5. For Love or Money: the Evolution of Reproductive and Material Motivations
Alan R. Rogers

6. Fertility and Fitness Among Albuquerque Men: a Competitive Labour Market Theory
Hillard S. Kaplan, Jane B. Lancaster, John A. Bock and Sara E. Johnson

7. Reproductive Decisions Viewed from an Evolutionarily Informed Historical Demography
Eckard Voland

8. English Fertility, 1600-1900: Is an Economic Analysis Tenable?
P.R. Andrew Hinde

9. Stopping, Starting and Spacing: the Regulation of Fertility in Historical Populations
John Landers

10. Obstacles to Fertility Decline in Developing Countries
John Cleland

11. Imperatives to Reproduce: Views from North-west England on Fertility in the Light of Infertility
Jeanette Edwards

12. The Timing of Childbearing in Developed Countries
Máire Ní Bhrolcháin

13. Low Fertility in a Pastoral Population: Constraints or Choice?
Sara Randall

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▼ Issues in fetal medicine - 1992

Publication Date: 1992

Editor: S.L. Barron, D.F. Roberts

Publication contents:

1. The Galton Lecture for 1992: The Changing Status of the Fetus
S. L. Barron

2. Applications of Recent Advances in DNA Techniques in the Fetus
Ann Curtis

3. Normal Fetal Development and the Time of Origin of Some Structural Abnormalities
Mary J. Seller

4. Preimplantation Diagnosis of Genetic Disease
P. R. Braude

5. Clinical Methods of Prenatal Diagnosis
Stephen A. Walkinshaw

6. Management in a Fetal Medicine Clinic
Tom Lind

7. Fetal Surgery
Don K. Nakayama

8. Fetal Therapy
Martin J. Whittle

9. Gene Therapy and Fetal Medicine
M. Pembrey

10. ‘Calming or Harming?’ The Ethics of Screening for Fetal Defects
G. R. Dunstan

11. The Legal Status of the Embryo and the Fetus
Derek Morgan

12. Fetal Medicine: Legal and Ethical Implications
Alexander McCall Smith

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▼ Sir Frances Galton FRS (1822-1911) - the legacy of his ideas - 1991
▼ Minority populations: genetics, demography and health - 1990

Publication Date: 1990

Author: Proceedings of the 1990 Galton Institute conference.

Publication contents:

1. Minority Populations as Genetic Isolates: The Interpretation of Inbreeding Results
James V. Neel

2. Consanguinity and Genetic Disease in Finland’s Swedish-Speaking Minority
L. B. Jorde, K. J. Pitkänen, E. O’Brien and A. W. Eriksson

3. The Galton Lecture for 1990: The Price of Isolation
D. F. Roberts

4. Herero Demographic History
Henry Harpending and Renee Pennington

5. Sociocultural Factors Influencing the Spread of Myotonic Dystrophy in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean Region of the Province of Quebec
Suzanne Veillette, Michel Perron, Jean Mathieu, Claude Prévost and Gilles Hébert

6. Consanguineous Marriage in Southern Asia: Incidence, Causes and Effects
A.. H. Bittles, S. A. Shami and N. Appaji Rao

7. A Health Profile of Britain’s Ethnic Minorities
R. Balarajan and Veena Soni Raleigh

8. A Prospective Study on the Health of Birmingham Babies in Different Ethnic Groups: Interim Findings
Sarah Bundey

9. Health Problems of the Turkish Minority in Germany: Experiences with a Prenatal β Thalassaemia Detection Programme
Wolfgang Holzgreve, Peter Miny, Sergi Terçanli and Jurgen Horst

10. Neonatal Screening for Sickle Cell Disease in London Neonates
A. J. Bellingham, S. Henderson, K. Fishlock, L. Oni and M. E. C. Horn

11. Demographic Characteristics of the Ethnic Minority Populations of Great Britain
John C. Haskey

12. Ethnic Intermarriage
David Coleman

13. Assortative Mating Among Minority Ethnic Groups in Moscow and Other Large Cities of the CIS
Olga L. Kurbatova and Elena Yu. Pobedonostseva

14. Future Global Strategies for Health Care Delivery to Minorities
V. Ramalingaswami, I. C. Verma and B. Aronson

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▼ Molecular genetics in medicine - 1989

Publication Date: 1989

Editor: D. F. Roberts, Robert Chester

Publication contents:

1. Introduction
D. F. Roberts

2. The Human Chromosome Map
T. Andrews

3. The DNA Map
Kay E. Davies

4. Molecular Individuality and Genetic ‘Fingerprinting’
C. F. Inglehearn and R. J. Bellamy

5. Fetal Tissue Sampling
R. J. Lilford

6. Fetal Diagnosis and the Need for Support
K. M. Laurence

7. Prospects for Gene Insertion Therapy in Early Life
Marcus Pembrey

8. Neural Transplantation in Degenerative Disease
E. R. Hitchcock

9. Population Screening for Genetic Disorders
Sarah Bundey

10. Family Screening for Genetic Disorders: Lessons from Huntington’s Disease
Peter S. Harper and Michael J. Morris

11. Molecular Genetics in Medicine: Sharing the Benefits
Trefor Jenkins

12. Genetic Registers: Problems Old and New
Alan F. H. Emery

13. New Problems in Management of Families
A. Clarke

14. Law or Ethics?
D. J. Cusine

15. Tension: The Ethics of Choice
G. R. Dunstan

16. Epilogue: Molecular Genetics in Medicine
D. F. Roberts and Robert Chester

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