The following essay is a review of the literature about the American eugenics movement
produced by scholars over the last fifty years. The essay provides an explanation for today's …

By the 1950s, eugenics had lost its scientific status; it now belonged to the context rather
than to the content of science. Interest in the subject was also at low ebb. But that situation …

Inspired by our experience addressing the legacy of eugenics at California State University,
Sacramento, this special issue presents an array of articles representative of diverse …

While frequently acknowledging the role that environmental concerns played in various
national eugenics movements, historians generally have underestimated and downplayed …

Within the last few years, the historiography of eugenics has produced a sophisticated
understanding of the movement. In place of a monolithic use of eugenics and Social …

Galton (1822-1911) first introduced the term eugenics to the vocabulary of science.
According to Galton's lofty formulation, eugenics was" the study of the agencies under social …

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of eugenics in North America focused on the
second half of the twentieth century. Based on new research, Randall Hansen and …

Daniel Kevles, historian of science at the California Institute of Technology and author of a
number of important books and articles, has produced a significan contribution to the history …

The eugenics movement prior to the Second World War gave voice to the desire of many
social reformers to promote good births and prevent bad births. Two sources of cultural …

In a recent issue about the Biotech Era, Time magazine had a banner headline:“Eugenics:
The History of a Bad Idea.” It was subtitled “The fi rst effort to control human evolution led to …