Career
Robin had also been an officer in the Coldstream Guards. C.P felt that war was dysgenic because it killed people who tended to be above the physical average and deterred thoughtful people from parenthood. Qualifying in medicine in 1925, Blacker became a registrar in Guy"s Hospital’s psychiatric department for three years and continued his study at the Maudsley Hospital.
The official citation read:
From 1931 to 1952 Blacker was secretary of the Eugenics Society and he gave it a new focus on birth control and population planning.
. His appointment as Secretary was "not without some misgivings of Darwin, its chairman. Two prominent issues here were Darwin’s reluctance to endorse Blacker’s deep-rooted conviction that research and provision of contraception should be a major feature in the Eugenic Society’s strategy to reduce the fecundity of the lower, less able classes and his disagreement with Blacker’s aspiration to redirect more of the Eugenic Society’s effort from education and propaganda to research and promotion of contraception.".
