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
The Calamity Club
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 (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
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
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

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
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



Jonathan Anomaly
“ I cannot shake the conviction that life is (usually) worth living, and that we should continue to create the conditions for intelligent life to experience beauty, create art, discover how the world works, and continue to set and satisfy goals that presuppose a complex form of intelligence. It is at this point that our intuitions bottom out. If you think that life is pointless, given that we will leave no trace in 20 billion years, it is hard to know how to convince you to believe otherwise. An o ...more ”
― Jonathan Anomaly, Creating Future People

“ On 14 July, less than six months into Hitler’s chancellorship, the legal basis for forced sterilisations was created by virtue of the Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases (Gesetz zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses). According to this law, which came into force on the first day of 1934, someone could be sterilised without their consent if their progeny were expected to have serious physical or mental hereditary defects. Between 1934 and 1945, more than 300,000 men and wo ...more ”
― Alex J. Kay, Empire of Destruction: A History of Nazi Mass Killing

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