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

eugenics Eugenics is a set of largely discredited beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population. Historically, eugenicists have attempted to alter the frequency of various human phenotypes by inhibiting the fer ...

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