Binnie Dunlop (3 August 1874 – 15 July 1946) was a Scottish doctor and advocate of

eugenics Eugenics ( ; ) is a fringe set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population. Historically, eugenicists have attempted to alter human gene pools by excluding people and groups judged to be inferior or ...

. Dunlop, the son of a Glasgow doctor, studied medicine at

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, graduating M.B. (1898)Graduate Record for Binnie Dunlop
/ref> and Ch.B. However, he never practiced medicine, instead studying social and economic questions.Charles Vickery Drysdale
Binne Dunlop
''Eugenics Review'' 38 (Oct. 1946), p.146 He joined the

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in 1910, and was probably the author of the League's 1913 pamphlet ''Hygienic Methods of Birth Control''.Rosanna Ledbetter, ''History of the

, 1877–1927'', Ohio State University Press, 1986, pp.206-9 He held office in the Malthusian League as Honorary Secretary and Treasurer, and was editor of ''The Malthusian'' from 1918 to 1921.

Works

* ''National happiness under individualism. An explanation and solution of the poverty and riches problem'', 1909 * (anon.) ''Hygienic methods of family limitation'', 1913 * 'Over-population as a cause of war', in Eden and

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, eds., ''Population and Birth-control: a symposium'', 1917

References

1874 births 1946 deaths 19th-century Scottish medical doctors Scottish eugenicists {{Scotland-med-bio-stub