Stewart Paton M.D. (April 19, 1865 January 7, 1942) was an American psychiatrist and educator.

Biography

Born in New York City in 1865, Stewart Paton graduated from Princeton (1886) 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 was a strong advocate of American entry into World War I.[1] 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".[1] 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.[2] He was a trustee of the Carnegie Institution from 1916 until his death.[3] He died of heart disease in 1942.[4]

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  1. 1 2 Henry Rutgers Marshall, "War and Progress". The North American Review, September 1916, (pp. 391-399)
  2. Stewart Paton, Education in War and Peace, Hoeber, 1920. (p. 21)
  3. Carnegie Institution of Washington. Year Book No. 47, July 1, 1947 – June 30, 1948 (PDF). Washington, DC. 1948. p. vi.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. Rogers, Fred B. (1965). "Stewart Paton (1865-1942): Mental Hygienist," American Journal of Public Health and the Nation's Health, 55(5).

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