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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 — 2,640 ratings — published 2016
Necessary Lies (Necessary Lies, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.30 — 84,024 ratings — published 2013
Shutter Island (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.14 — 224,817 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 — 47,124 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 — 50,514 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 — 2,071,630 ratings — published 1932
The Lies They Told (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.36 — 11,706 ratings — published
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.66 — 440,703 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 Foundling (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.89 — 14,453 ratings — published 2022
Take My Hand (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.36 — 108,368 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 — 5,229 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 — 8,961 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 — 55,751 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 4.28 — 210 ratings — published 2026
The Sunflower House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.35 — 15,371 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 — 25,051 ratings — published 2016
“The "right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" begins with "life", and "life" begins at conception.”
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“Those who argue that bioengineering is similar in spirit to other ways ambitious parents shape and mold their children have a point. But this similarity does not give us reason to embrace the genetic manipulation of children. Instead, it gives us reason to question the low-tech, high-pressure child-rearing practices we commonly accept.”
― The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering
― The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering











