Program

Research Programs: Humanities, Science, and Technology

Period of Performance

7/1/1985 - 8/31/1986

Funding Totals

$23,000.00 (approved)
$23,000.00 (awarded)


Scientific Issues and Value Conflicts in the Nature-Nurture Controversy

FAIN: RH-20721-85

University of Massachusetts, Boston (Boston, MA 02125-3300)
Diane B. Paul (Project Director: November 1984 to October 1990)

To support a study of the recent history of the nature/nurture debate among biologists, specifically an examination of the shifts in geneticists' attitudestoward hereditarianism and eugenics following World War II.