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Eugenics Books
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War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,007 ratings — published 2003
Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,638 ratings — published 2016
Necessary Lies (Necessary Lies, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.30 — 84,014 ratings — published 2013
Shutter Island (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.14 — 224,719 ratings — published 2003
Eugenics and Other Evils : An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,244 ratings — published 1922
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,522 ratings — published 2022
Only the Beautiful (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.45 — 47,080 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 3.95 — 132 ratings — published 2005
In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.83 — 172 ratings — published 1985
Second Glance (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.80 — 50,507 ratings — published 2003
Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,972 ratings — published 2018
The Mismeasure of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,311 ratings — published 1982
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,071,102 ratings — published 1932
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.66 — 440,564 ratings — published 2020
Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.09 — 348 ratings — published 2016
Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.80 — 40 ratings — published 2004
Better for All the World: The Secret History of Forced Sterilization and America's Quest for Racial Purity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.82 — 171 ratings — published 2006
From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics and Racism in Germany (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.05 — 140 ratings — published 2004
Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.93 — 238 ratings — published 2008
The Lies They Told (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.36 — 11,583 ratings — published
The Foundling (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.89 — 14,451 ratings — published 2022
Take My Hand (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.36 — 108,325 ratings — published 2022
The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,794 ratings — published 2021
Superior: The Return of Race Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.23 — 5,208 ratings — published 2019
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 7 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.05 — 887 ratings — published 2019
The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.78 — 85 ratings — published 1994
American Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.13 — 67 ratings — published 2003
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.25 — 32 ratings — published 2010
Segregation's Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.00 — 10 ratings — published 2008
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 3.57 — 112 ratings — published 2008
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,230 ratings — published 1997
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 3.85 — 66 ratings — published 1996
The Last Carolina Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,949 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 4.14 — 55,706 ratings — published 2020
Not in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology and Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.13 — 343 ratings — published 1984
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 — 1,763 ratings — published 2017
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 — 10,020 ratings — published 2007
Sex, Race, and Science: Eugenics in the Deep South (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.61 — 23 ratings — published 1995
The Hour of Eugenics": Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.13 — 70 ratings — published 1991
Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.38 — 848 ratings — published 2011
Women of a Promiscuous Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.27 — 208 ratings — published 2026
The Sunflower House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.35 — 15,328 ratings — published 2024
The Orphans of Davenport: Eugenics, the Great Depression, and the War over Children's Intelligence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.86 — 706 ratings — published 2021
Keeping America Sane: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880–1940 (Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry)
by (shelved 4 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.80 — 10 ratings — published 1997
Eugenics: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.83 — 109 ratings — published 2016
The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.30 — 10 ratings — published 2002
Fit to Be Tied: Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1950-1980 (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)
by (shelved 4 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.23 — 43 ratings — published 2009
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.77 — 25,049 ratings — published 2016
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We can imagine no recommendation for using the government to manipulate fertility that does not have dangers. But this highlights the problem: The United States already has policies that inadvertently social-engineer who has babies, and it is encouraging the wrong women. If the United States did as much to encourage high-IQ women to have babies as it now does to encourage low-IQ women, it would rightly be described as engaging in aggressive manipulation of fertility. The technically precise description of America's fertility policy is that it subsidizes births among poor women, who are also disproportionately at the low end of the intelligence distribution. We urge generally that these policies, represented by the extensive network of cash and services for low-income women who have babies, be ended.”
― The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
We can imagine no recommendation for using the government to manipulate fertility that does not have dangers. But this highlights the problem: The United States already has policies that inadvertently social-engineer who has babies, and it is encouraging the wrong women. If the United States did as much to encourage high-IQ women to have babies as it now does to encourage low-IQ women, it would rightly be described as engaging in aggressive manipulation of fertility. The technically precise description of America's fertility policy is that it subsidizes births among poor women, who are also disproportionately at the low end of the intelligence distribution. We urge generally that these policies, represented by the extensive network of cash and services for low-income women who have babies, be ended.”
― The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
“The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit. The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the mating instinct, Several European countries and a number of states of the American Union sterilize the criminal and the insane. This is not sufficient. The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny. A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.”
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