Eugenics is largely remembered for coming into disrepute in the post-War period following
the Nazi regime and the Holocaust. However, 21st-century scholarship has begun to assess …

Eugenics is largely remembered for coming into disrepute in the post-War period following
the Nazi regime and the Holocaust. However, 21st-century scholarship has begun to assess …

" 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 …

Eugenics as a concept has been around for ages and has continuously evolved in its
execution over time. Thinkers such as Plato and Galton as well as leaders such as Hitler …

A century ago this week, 300 scientists, policy-makers, and campaigners gathered at the
American Museum of Natural History in New York to discuss their work about heredity and …

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 …

Once defined as “the science of human improvement through better breeding,” eugenics has
roared back into the headlines in recent weeks as both Mr. Hyde and Dr. Jekyll. The close …

Between 1909 and the early 1950s, the state of California sterilized over twenty thousand
patients in government institutions for the mentally ill and mentally deficient. Of the many …

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 …