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
Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
The Lies They Told
Necessary Lies (Necessary Lies, #1)
Shutter Island
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
Eugenics and Other Evils : An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State
Only the Beautiful
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 (Volume 17) (American Crossroads)
Second Glance
Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
The Mismeasure of Man
In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity
Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement
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
63 books — 25 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
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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
23 books — 16 voters


C.S. Lewis
If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics

Jonathan Anomaly
Eugenics has become a dirty word in popular culture because of its excesses in the early twentieth century, including forced sterilization laws in the USA and Germany (which were applied to the ‘feebleminded’ but sometimes also to epileptics and even sexual deviants). But a lot of the criticism of eugenics conflates what Galton and many modern academics in bioethics mean by ‘eugenics’ with how the Nazis misused it [...] Moral grandstanding has become so common in connection with the word that jo ...more
Jonathan Anomaly, Creating Future People

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