In the first book to explore the theory and practice of eugenics in the American South,
Edward Larson shows how the quest for" strong bloodlines" expressed itself in specific state …

" With an emphasis on the American West, Eugenic Nation explores the long and unsettled
history of eugenics in the United States. This expanded second edition includes shocking …

In 1883, Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, coined the word" eugenics" to express
his dream of perfecting the human race by applying the laws of genetic heredity. Adapting …

Traces the history of eugenics ideology in the United States and its ongoing presence in
contemporary life. The Nazis may have given eugenics its negative connotations, but the …

Wendy Kline's lucid cultural history of eugenics in America emphasizes the movement's
central, continuing interaction with popular notions of gender and morality. Kline shows how …

A provocative examination of how unequal access to reproductive technology replays the
sins of the eugenics movement Eugenics, the effort to improve the human species by …

Eugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth
century in a remarkable transnational phenomenon that informed social and scientific policy …

In the Name of Eugenics traces the history of the eugenics movement in the United States
and Britain, beginning in the nineteenth century and continuing up to the mid-1980s and …

Eugenics was a term coined in 1883 to name the scientific and social theory which
advocated" race improvement" through selective human breeding. In Europe and the United …

Eugenics--the study of human racial progress through selective breeding--frequently
invokes images of social engineering, virulent racism, immigrant persecution, and Nazi …