Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Schneider, William H. (William Howard), 1945-
- Extent:
- 0.75 linear feet (1 box)
- Language:
- English , French .
- Preferred citation:
William H. Schneider History of French Eugenics Research Collection, History of Medicine Collection, Ruth Lilly Medical Library, Indiana University School of Medicine
Background
- Biographical / Historical:
William H. Schneider is professor emeritus of History and Medical Humanities at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) where he has also held adjunct appointments in the Indiana University School of Medicine's Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics and in the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. He taught the history of medicine, medical humanities, the history of international humanitarian assistance, and extreme medicine (during wars, epidemics, natural disasters, etc.). A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Schneider received a B.A. from Stanford University in 1967, an M.A. from Duquesne University in 1970, and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1976. He came to IUPUI in 1989 to chair the History Department (a position he held until 1995) and served as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs in the School of Liberal Arts from 1998 to 2003. In 1998, he founded IUPUI's Medical Humanities and Health Studies program which he directed until his retirement in 2017. He also served as president of the IUPUI Faculty Council as well as co-president of the Indiana University Faculty Council. Prior to coming to Indiana, he was faculty member in the History Department at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
Schneider received a Fulbright and National Science Foundation fellowships, as well as multi-year research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Institutes of Health, The Henry Luce Foundation, and the Rockefeller Archive Center. These and other funding awards supported research and publications on the history of scientific racism (including eugenics and genetics), serology and blood transfusion, health philanthropy, the introduction of modern biomedicine in China and Africa, smallpox eradication and the origins of AIDS, and the history of medical education. He has curated three major digital research collections, published dozens of articles, and written and edited several books including (Quality and Quantity: The Quest for Biological Regeneration in Twentieth Century France (1990); Rockefeller Philanthropy and Modern Biomedicine: International Initiatives from World War I to the Cold War (2002); Ludwik Hirszfeld: The Story of One Life (2010); The History of Blood Transfusion in Sub-Saharan Africa (2013); Indiana University School of Medicine: A History (2021); and Histories of the HIVs: The Origin of the Multiple AIDS Epidemics (2021).
- Scope and Content:
This collection contains materials created and collected by William H. Schneider between 1980 and 2002 while researching the history of eugenics in France and includes publication manuscripts, conference presentation notes, correspondence, and other research materials; photocopies of volumes 1-3 (1913-1926) of Eugénique, the official journal of the French Eugenics Society (Société française d'eugénique); an unpublished autobiography [Mémoires sur moi et les autres] by physiologist, Nobel laureate (1913, Physiology), and vice president of French Eugenics Society, Charles Richet (1850-1935); French obsetrician Raymond Couvelaire's unpublished recollections [Épigrammes familiale et violons imaginaires] of his father-in-law, a pioneer of modern perinatal care and the founder and first president of the French Eugenics Society, Adolphe Pinard (1844-1934); the manuscript of an early article by Pinard ["L'avenir de la race humaine," Revue Scientifique,1914); correspondence between Schneider and Charles Richet's grandsons, Gabriel and Denis Richet, who provided materials about their grandfather; and documents related to a National Science Foundation grant Schneider received to fund his research. Schneider published his research findings in a series of journal articles ["Toward the Improvement of the Human Race: The History of Eugenics in France," The Journal of Modern History, 1982, Vol. 54, No. 2, https://doi.org/10.1086/244134; "Charles Richet and the Social Role of Medical Men," Journal of Medical Biography, 2001, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 213–219, https://doi.org/10.1177/096777200100900404]; a book chapter ["The Eugenics Movement in France, 1890-1940," in The Wellborn Science: Eugenics in Germany, France, Brazil, and Russia, ed. Mark B. Adams (New York: Oxford UP, 1989), 69-109]; and a monograph [Quality and Quantity: The Quest for Biological Regeneration in Twentieth Century France (New York: Cambridge UP, 1990)].
- Custodial history:
Donated to Ruth Lilly Medical Library by William H. Schneider, PhD (Professor Emeritus of History/Professor of Medical Humanities and Health Studies, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis) on December 14, 2022.
- Rules or conventions:
- DACS-Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access
- RESTRICTIONS:
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This collection is open to the public without restriction.
- TERMS OF ACCESS:
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The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material.
- PREFERRED CITATION:
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William H. Schneider History of French Eugenics Research Collection, History of Medicine Collection, Ruth Lilly Medical Library, Indiana University School of Medicine
- CAMPUS:
- Indiana University Indianapolis
- LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
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Indiana University School of Medicine975 West Walnut Street, IB 307Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, United States
- CAMPUS:
- Indiana University Indianapolis
- CONTACT:
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317-274-7182medlref@iupui.edu