Euthenics
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"Eugenics deals with race improvement through heredity.Euthenics deals with race improvement through environment.Eugenics is hygiene for the future generations.Euthenics is hygiene for the present gen
Abraham Flexner, c. 1895
Ellen Swallow Richards
Julia Clifford Lathrop first chief US Childrens Bureau
Ellen Swallow Richards
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Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards was an American industrial and safety engineer, environmental chemist, and university faculty member in the United States during the 19th century. Her pioneering work
Euthenics
…The opposite of Euthenia is Penia, Πενία ("deficiency" or "poverty") the personification of poverty and need. Ellen Swallow Richards (1842–1911) was one of the first writers to use the term, in The Cost of Shelter (1905), with the meaning "the science of better living". It is unclear…
Richards c. 1890s From The Life of Ellen H. Richards by Caroline L. Hunt, 1912
Ellen H. Swallow Richards House Boston MA 02
Daguerreotype of Ellen Henrietta Swallow, c. 1848
Old Westford Academy