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War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,018 ratings — published 2003
Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.78 — 2,705 ratings — published 2016
The Lies They Told (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.31 — 31,828 ratings — published 2025
Necessary Lies (Necessary Lies, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.30 — 86,323 ratings — published 2013
Shutter Island (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.14 — 235,502 ratings — published 2003
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,600 ratings — published 2022
Eugenics and Other Evils : An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,278 ratings — published 1922
Only the Beautiful (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.45 — 51,881 ratings — published 2023
Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.05 — 78 ratings — published 2001
Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America (Volume 17) (American Crossroads)
by (shelved 12 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.96 — 136 ratings — published 2005
Second Glance (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.80 — 51,401 ratings — published 2003
Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,155 ratings — published 2018
The Mismeasure of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,408 ratings — published 1982
In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.84 — 173 ratings — published 1985
Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.80 — 40 ratings — published 2004
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,127,112 ratings — published 1932
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.66 — 457,406 ratings — published 2020
Take My Hand (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.35 — 115,413 ratings — published 2022
Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.10 — 358 ratings — published 2016
From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics and Racism in Germany (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.06 — 142 ratings — published 2004
Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.94 — 242 ratings — published 2008
The Foundling (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.89 — 14,952 ratings — published 2022
The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.63 — 1,838 ratings — published 2021
The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.05 — 909 ratings — published 2019
The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.77 — 88 ratings — published 1994
American Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.13 — 68 ratings — published 2003
Better for All the World: The Secret History of Forced Sterilization and America's Quest for Racial Purity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.83 — 173 ratings — published 2006
Women of a Promiscuous Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.90 — 7,269 ratings — published 2026
Superior: The Return of Race Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.23 — 5,273 ratings — published 2019
The Calamity Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.59 — 70,663 ratings — published 2026
The Sunflower House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.32 — 23,503 ratings — published 2024
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.25 — 32 ratings — published 2010
Not in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology and Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.13 — 349 ratings — published 1984
Segregation's Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.09 — 11 ratings — published 2008
A Century of Eugenics in America: From the Indiana Experiment to the Human Genome Era (Bioethics and the Humanities)
by (shelved 6 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.12 — 26 ratings — published 2010
Phenomena: The Lost and Forgotten Children (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.12 — 425 ratings — published 2013
In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.58 — 114 ratings — published 2008
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.46 — 5,344 ratings — published 1997
The Hour of Eugenics": Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.13 — 71 ratings — published 1991
The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of "Defective" Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures since 1915 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.87 — 67 ratings — published 1996
The Last Carolina Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.98 — 11,298 ratings — published 2023
Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.13 — 60,715 ratings — published 2020
Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,862 ratings — published 2017
The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.33 — 12 ratings — published 2002
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.43 — 10,486 ratings — published 2007
Sex, Race, and Science: Eugenics in the Deep South (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.62 — 24 ratings — published 1995
The Passing of the Great Race or the Racial Basis of European History (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.34 — 187 ratings — published 1916
Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.38 — 857 ratings — published 2011
Defending the Master Race: Conservation, Eugenics, and the Legacy of Madison Grant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.18 — 38 ratings — published 2008
Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.64 — 501 ratings — published 2021
“The only way of cutting off the constant stream of idiots and imbeciles and feeble-minded persons who help to fill our prisons and workhouses, reformatories, and asylums is to prevent those who are known to be
mentally defective from producing offspring. Undoubtedly the best way of doing this is to place these defectives under control. Even if this were a hardship to the individual it would be necessary for the sake of protecting the race. (1912)”
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mentally defective from producing offspring. Undoubtedly the best way of doing this is to place these defectives under control. Even if this were a hardship to the individual it would be necessary for the sake of protecting the race. (1912)”
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“Twin studies of adult individuals have found a heritability of IQ between 57% and 73%[6] with the most recent studies showing heritability for IQ as high as 80%.[7] IQ goes from being weakly correlated with genetics, for children, to being strongly correlated with genetics for late teens and adults. The heritability of IQ increases with age and reaches an asymptote at 18–20 years of age and continues at that level well into adulthood. This phenomenon is known as the Wilson Effect”
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