journal articles

NB: Article titles in aqua are links to pieces that are either openly available on-line or are pdf files that I have uploaded. Many pre-1998 articles related to the history of eugenics and the nature-nurture debate are included in a collection of my essays, The Politics of Heredity. Please contact me for a pdf of any other article(s) you would like to read. 

HG Spencer and DB Paul. In Memoriam. Richard Charles Lewontin (1929-2021): A Self-Critical Critic.  American Naturalist 200:5 (Nov. 2022).

DB Paul and J Beatty. Richard Lewontin and Auto/biography. In Newman, S.A., Godfrey-Smith, P., Hartl,  D.L. et al. Remembering Richard Lewontin (1929–2021). Biological Theory 16: 257–267 (2021).

DB Paul. Imagining Life with a Genetic Disorder: The Challenge of Evaluating Health States that Exist from Birth, OBM Genetics (May 14, 2021) 5, 2:11

DB Paul and I Löwy, I. On Objectivity in Prenatal Genetic Care, OBM Genetics (June 2018) 2, 2:022

DB Paul. Eugenics Redux: “Reproductive Benefit” as a Rationale for Newborn Screening, Special Report: The Ethics of Sequencing Newborns: Recommendations and Reflections Hastings Center Report 48, S2 (July-August 2018), S12-13.

DB Paul, Norm Change in Genetic Services: How the Discourse of Choice Replaced the Discourse of Prevention, Varia Historica (2017) 33. 61: 21-47.

DB Paul, Reflections on the Historiography of American Eugenics: Trends, Fractures, Tensions, Journal of the  History of Biology (2016) 49, 4: 641-658. 

M Weisberg and DB Paul, Morton, Gould, and Bias: A Comment on “The Mismeasure of Science," PLoS Biology (April 19, 2016) 14(4): e1002444. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002444

JP Brosco and DB Paul, The Political History of PKU: 50 Years of Newborn Screening, Pediatrics (2013) 132: 987-989.
 
DB Paul and RA Ankeny, Patenting the PKU Test — Federally Funded Research and Intellectual Property, New England Journal of Medicine (2013) 369: 792-794.

DB Paul, J Stenhouse, and HG Spencer, The Two Faces of Robert FitzRoy: Captain of HMS Beagle and Governor of New Zealand, Quarterly Review of Biology (September 2013) 88, 3: 219-225.

DB Paul, What Was Wrong with Eugenics? Conflicting Narratives and Disputed Interpretations, Science & Education (2014) 23: 259-271. (Originally published online 3 November 2012; DOI: 10.1007/s11191-012-9556-3).

DB Paul and HG Spencer, ’It’s Ok, We’re Not Cousins by Blood’: The Cousin Marriage Controversy in Historical Perspective, PLoS Biology (2008) 6: 320-324.

DB Paul and B Day, John Stuart Mill, Innate Differences, and the Regulation of Reproduction, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Medical Sciences (2008) 39: 222-231.

DB Paul, Patient Advocacy in Newborn Screening: Continuities and Discontinuities, American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics (2008) 14C: 8-14.

DB Paul, Contested Conceptions: PKU in the Postwar Discourse on Reproduction, Medicina nei Secoli (2002) 14: 773-791.

DB Paul, A Double-Edged Sword, Nature (June 1, 2000) 405: 515.

DB Paul, What is a Genetic Test and Why Does it Matter? Endeavour (1999) 23: 159-161. Reprinted as Tests Génetiques: á qui Profite le Débat? La Recherche (March 2000) 329: 86-89. 

DB Paul, Contesting Consent: The Challenge to Compulsory Neonatal Screening for PKU, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine (1999) 42: 207-219. Reprinted in Neonatal Intensive Care.

DB Paul, Genetic Screening, Economics, and Eugenics, Science in Context (Autumn 1998) 11:93-99.

HG Spencer and DB Paul, The Failure of a Scientific Critique: David Heron, Karl Pearson and Mendelian Eugenics, British Journal for the History of Science (1998) 31: 441-452.

DB Paul, La Trop Belle Histoire de la Phénylcétonurie, La Recherche (July/August 1998) 311: 68-71.

DB Paul, From Eugenics to Medical Genetics, Journal of Policy History (1997) 9: 96-116. Reprinted in Health Care Policy in Contemporary America, A Marcus and H Cravens, eds. (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997).

DB Paul, Culpability and Compassion: Lessons from the History of Eugenics, Politics and the Life Sciences (1996): 17-18.

DB Paul and HG Spencer, The Hidden Science of Eugenics, Nature (1995) 374: 302-304.

DB Paul, Eugenic Anxieties, Social Realities, and Political Choices, Social Research (1992) 59: 663-683. Reprinted in M Jacob, ed, Politics of Western Science, 1640-1990 (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1994); rev. version in C Cranor, ed., Are Genes Us? Social Consequences of the New Genetics (New Brunswick. NJ: Rutgers, 1994).

DB Paul and CB Krimbas, Nikolai V. Timoféeff-Ressovsky, Scientific American (1992) 266: 86-93.

DB Paul and AL Blumenthal, On the Trail of Little Albert, Psychological Record (1989) 39: 547-553.

DB Paul, The Selection of the ‘Survival of the Fittest,’ Journal of the History of Biology (1988) 21: 411-24.

DB Paul, H. J. Muller, Communism, and the Cold War, Genetics (1988) 119: 223-225. 

DB Paul, ’Our Load of Mutations’ Revisited, Journal of the History of Biology (1987) 20: 321-335.

DB Paul, The Nine Lives of Discredited Data, The Sciences (1987) 27: 26-30.

DB Paul, Textbook Treatments of the Genetics of Intelligence, Quarterly Review of Biology (1985) 60: 317-326.

DB Paul, Eugenics and the Left, Journal of the History of Ideas (1984) 45: 567-590. [Reprinted with minor editing in The Politics of Heredity].

DB Paul, A War on Two Fronts: J.B.S. Haldane and the Response to Lysenkoism in Britain, Journal of the History of Biology (1983) 16: 1-37.

DB Paul, ‘In the Interests of Civilization’: Marxist Views of Race and Culture in the Nineteenth Century, Journal of the History of Ideas (1981) 42: 115-38. Reprinted in M Green, ed., African History: An Introduction (Jones & Bartlett, 1994).

DB Paul, Marxism, Darwinism, and the Theory of Two Sciences, Marxist Perspectives (1979) 2: 116-143.