Baker Graham J
Can Bull Med Hist. 2014;31(1):77-98. doi: 10.3138/cbmh.31.1.77.
The eugenics movement attracted a wide range of supporters. This article explores this theme with relation to literature about the charitable work of the Salvation Army in Britain and Canada c.1890-1921, with a focus upon the emigration scheme outlined in William Booth's book In Darkest England and the Way Out. These writings indicate the widespread dispersal of eugenic ideology, and demonstrate the flexibility with which these theories were interpreted in this period. It will be shown that the Salvation Army adopted elements of both hereditarian and environmentalist views regarding racial health. These arguments were unified by the claim that the work of the organization made a worthy contribution to public health, both in the present and in the future. This case study sheds new light upon the history of a prominent evangelical Christian organization and upon the development of the international eugenics movement.
优生学运动吸引了广泛的支持者。本文围绕约1890年至1921年英国和加拿大救世军慈善工作的相关文献探讨这一主题，重点关注威廉·布斯所著《最黑暗的英格兰与出路》中概述的移民计划。这些著述表明优生学思想广泛传播，并展示了这一时期对这些理论的灵活解读。将表明，救世军在种族健康问题上采纳了遗传论和环境论两种观点的要素。这些论点通过宣称该组织的工作在当下和未来都对公共卫生做出了有价值的贡献而得以统一。本案例研究为一个著名的福音派基督教组织的历史以及国际优生学运动的发展提供了新的视角。
