Papers of Carlos Paton Blacker, 1920-1974, reflecting his long and active career in psychiatry (including as including as psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital and as an Adviser to the Ministry of Health), and his activities as Secretary to the Eugenics Society and with a number of organisations interested in population and birth control, including the Birth Control Investigation Committee, the International Planned Parenthood Federation, and the Simon Population Trust. There is also some material relating to his return to military duty in the Second World War as a Regimental Medical Officer. The collection also includes correspondence (both personal and professional), which sheds light on his interests in ornithology and nature conservation, and other writings both published and unpublished.
Blacker , Carlos Paton , 1895-1975 , psychiatristElements area
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- The study of inheritance patterns of specific traits.
- Etude des modèles de transmission héréditaire de traits spécifiques.
- Estudio de los modelos hereditarios de rasgos específicos.
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Genetics
- NT Evolution
- NT Heredity
- NT Human genetics
- NT Mutation
- NT Natural selection
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Genetics
- UF Genomics
- UF Génomique
- UF Genómica