DIGITAL IMAGE ARCHIVE ON THE AMERICAN EUGENICS MOVEMENT

美国优生运动的数字图像档案

• 批准号: 2883186
• 负责人: David Andrew MICKLOS
• 金额: $ 19.44万
• 依托单位: COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-03-05 至 2000-04-16
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2883186
• 关键词: Internet; animal breeding; archives; behavioral /social science; behavioral genetics; bioimaging /biomedical imaging; computer human interaction; computer system design /evaluation; digital imaging; ethics; gene environment interaction; history of life science; human data; human migration; human population genetics; information retrieval; marriage /marital status; racial /ethnic difference; science education

We propose to develop a searchable archive of images illustrating the American Eugenics Movement for use by students, educators, and others concerned with the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of human genome research. The Archive will be based primarily on the corpus of rare materials remaining from the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor, which was the epicenter of American eugenics from 1910-40. These materials have been heretofore essentially inaccessible - some remaining in the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Research Archives and the bulk coming to rest within the last several years at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. The digital Archive will include photographs of eugenics researchers and caseworkers, exhibits from eugenic congresses and fairs, case materials and pedigrees from family studies, title pages and tables from monographs, and brief items from the Eugenical News and other publications. The Archive will provide in-depth resources covering major themes from which parallels can be drawn to current research and issues in human genetics - including development of eugenics as a scientific discipline, negative/positive eugenics, genetic determinism, behavioral genetics, racial/ethnic comparisons, and social policy/legislation. While the Archive should be of great interest to historians and ethicists, it is not intended as a scholarly treatise. Rather, it is intended as an educational tool to allow individuals to learn about society's past involvement in eugenics by exploring primary materials. Like pictures at an exhibition, the images are intended as visual documents that largely speak for themselves. However, we acknowledge the importance of providing adequate narrative commentary to assist the user in placing Archive materials in their historical, social, and ethical context. To deal with this key issue, we propose formal review by an Editorial Advisory Panel (EAP), which will meet at Cold Spring Harbor at three points during Archive development. Transcripts of EAP discussions will be used as the basis for contextual commentary to accompany the Archive. The Archive will be developed as a SQL database - making use of stable, well-supported Microsoft system and development software. The Archive database will be managed by the Information Service Department of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, which currently administers several SQL database projects and several WWW sites (URLs http://www.cshl.org/, http://darwin.cshl.org/, and http://BIONET. The project team includes an educator, a research geneticist, a computer designer, and a computer programmer.

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