Bedford Riiko
Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto.
Can Bull Med Hist. 2015 Spring;32(1):77-100. doi: 10.3138/cbmh.32.1.77.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) of the United States and Ontario created in the 1880s departments of work dedicated to the study and care of heredity. This article examines the history of these departments and explores how the two organizations made differing use of the concept of heredity to support their particular agendas and methods for social reform. By exploring how heredity functioned as a malleable resource for the WCTU, this comparative case study also serves as an example of the cultural lives of scientific concepts.
美国和安大略省的基督教妇女禁酒联盟（WCTU）在19世纪80年代设立了致力于遗传研究和护理的工作部门。本文考察了这些部门的历史，并探讨了这两个组织如何以不同方式利用遗传概念来支持其特定的议程和社会改革方法。通过探究遗传如何作为WCTU的一种可塑资源发挥作用，这个比较案例研究也成为科学概念文化生命的一个例证。
