Eugenics


Eugenics (from the Greek εὐγενής eugenes 'well-born' from εὖ, 'good, well' and γένος, 'race, stock, kin) is a set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population by excluding (through a variety of morally criticized means) certain genetic groups judged to be inferior, and promoting other genetic groups judged to be superior. The definition of eugenics has been a matter of debate since the term was coined by Francis Galton in 1883. The concept predates the term; Plato suggested applying the principles of selective breeding to humans around 400 BC. Eugenics
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War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race
The Lies They Told
Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
Necessary Lies (Necessary Lies, #1)
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
Shutter Island
Eugenics and Other Evils : An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State
Only the Beautiful
The Calamity Club
Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom
Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America (American Crossroads) (Volume 17)
In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity
Second Glance
Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
The Mismeasure of Man
War Against the Weak by Edwin BlackThe Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay GouldThe Orphan Conspiracies by James MorcanBetter for All the World by Harry BruiniusIn Reckless Hands by Victoria F. Nourse
Books on the Eugenics Movement
62 books — 24 voters

The New Power of Face Reading by Rose  RosetreeRead People Deeper by Rose  RosetreeWrinkles Are God's Makeup by Rose  RosetreeI Can Read Your Face by Laura RosetreeThe Mark of the Beast, revealed by the shape of the head by Lucilla Rebecca Hedley
•Phreno-Meeno-Miney-OmO
104 books — 5 voters
Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyDune by Frank HerbertMiddlegame by Seanan McGuireA Diary in the Age of Water by Nina MunteanuGaia's Revolution by Nina Munteanu
Fiction books with eugenics
24 books — 17 voters

Killer Angel by George GrantThe Negro Project by Bruce FleuryMargaret Sanger’s Eugenic Legacy by Angela FranksMargaret Sanger by E. Drogin
Books Critical Of Margaret Sanger
4 books — 1 voter


Margaret Sanger
“ We want statesmen and poets and musicians and philosophers and strong men and delicate men and brave men. The qualities of one would be the weaknesses of the other.'' We want, most of all, genius. Proscription on Galtonian lines would tend to eliminate many of the great geniuses of the world who were not only ``Bohemian,'' but actually and pathologically abnormal--men like Rousseau, Dostoevsky, Chopin, Poe, Schumann, Nietzsche, Comte, Guy de Maupassant,--and how many others? But such considerat ...more ”
― Margaret Sanger, The Pivot of Civilization

G.K. Chesterton
“ The thing that really is trying to tyrannize through government is Science. The thing that really does use the secular arm is Science. And the creed that really is levying tithes and capturing schools, the creed that really is enforced by fine and imprisonment, the creed that really is proclaimed not in sermons but in statues, and spread not by pilgrims but by policemen—that creed is the great but disputed system of thought which began with Evolution and has ended in Eugenics. Materialism is rea ...more ”
― G.K. Chesterton, Eugenics and Other Evils : An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State

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