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24. Sept. 2010 · The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics covers the nineteenth century to the post-World War II era and dispels for uninitiated readers the automatic and apparently exclusive link between eugenics and the Holocaust. It provides a world history of eugenics.
EUGENICS: check fertility in the upper classes, through numerous causes, some of which are well known, others are inferred, and others again are wholly obscure. The latter class are apparently analogous to those which bar the fertility of most species of wild animals in zoological gardens.
Title: Eugenics: Its Definition, Scope, and Aims Created Date: 12/21/2007 9:42:47 PM
This first Eugenic Law clears the ground and may be said to proclaim negative Eugenics; but it cannot be defended, and nobody has attempted to defend it, except on the Eugenic theory. I will call it the Feeble-Minded Bill both for brevity and [20] because the description is strictly accurate.
8. Jan. 2017 · The science of heredity rapidly developed from 1850 to 1900 in terms of observable cellular processes of reproduction and experimental plant and animal breeding. Eugenics involved analyzing the statistics of biological variation and the transmission of characters from one generation to the next.
pursuit of human betterment, eugenic measures were taken to minimise undesirable genes (negative eugenics) and maximise desirable genes (positive eugenics) based on early theories of heredity. Negative and positive eugenic measures taken such as sterilisation and family planning gained epidemic-like popularity throughout the early 20th century ...
During the Progressive Era, eugenic approaches to social and economic re-form were popular, respectable and widespread. This essay documents the in u-ence of eugenic ideas upon American economic reform, especially in the areas of immigration and labor reform, and tries to illuminate something of its causes and consequences. Though our focus is ...
