Stewart Paton
Stewart Paton M.D. was an American psychiatrist and educator.
Biography
Born in New York City in 1865, Stewart Paton graduated from Princeton and receive his M.D. degree from Columbia three years later. He lectured for a time at Columbia and Yale University. Paton was a member of the American Philosophical Society, the New York Academy of Medicine, and the Harvey Society. He was a leading eugenicist of his day and president of the Eugenics Research Association. Paton wasa strong advocate of American entry into World War I. Paton opposed the right of Conscientious objection, arguing in an article for the New York Times that conscientious objectors suffered from "an inadequacy of neurotic constitutions". Paton was also antagonistic to Communism, arguing in his book Education in War and Peace that Communism was a "mania" rather than a political philosophy. He was a trustee of the Carnegie Institution from 1916 until his death. He died of heart disease in 1942.
Works
- Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1905.
- 1902-1919.
- New York: Paul B. Hoeber, 1920.
- New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921.
- New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922.Prohibiting Minds and the Present Social and Economic Crisis, Paul B. Hoeber, Inc., 1932.
Articles
Popular Science Monthly, Vol. LXXVIII, 1911, pp. 52–70.Popular Science Monthly, Vol. LXXXI, 1912, pp. 163–169.Popular Science Monthly, Vol. LXXXII, 1913, pp. 192–201.Mental Hygiene, Vol. IV, 1920, pp. 265–280.The Yale Review, Vol. XI, 1922, pp. 89–101.The Harpers Monthly, Vol. CXLVIII, No. 884, January 1924, pp. 165–173.- "Education for Sanity," The Forum, Vol. LXXIX, No. 6, June 1928, pp. 868–876.
- "Co-operation or Revolution," The Forum, Vol. XCII, No. 3, September 1934, pp. 185–188.