An examination of eugenic thinking past and present, from forced sterilization to prenatal
screening, drawing on experience with those who survived eugenics. Part science and part …

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 …

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 …

The American eugenics movement had a significant impact on American social history, and
analysis of the movement illustrates the relationship among science, scientists, and society …

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 …

Prior to laying out the remainder of this introduction, I want to first provide a brief explanatory
note on terminology. I understand, of course, that many readers may be offended by the title …

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 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 …

Blending social, intellectual, legal, medical, gender, and cultural history, Segregation's
Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia examines how eugenic theory and practice …

EUGENICS IS THE SCIENCE which deals with factors that improve hereditary qualities. The
aim of negative eugenics is the diminution of inferior genetic qualities in the gene pool; the …