Susan Connell, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, USA
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0001903
Eugenics is the study of the method of improving the quality of the human race, especially by selective breeding. First developed in the nineteenth century, the theory was put into practice in the eugenics policies of the UK, USA and Germany in the twentieth century. Renewed interest in eugenics has been occasioned by human genome data identification and collection.
Keywords: eugenics; negative eugenics; positive eugenics; sterilization laws
| Further Reading | |
| book Barkan E (1991) The Retreat of Scientific Racism: Changing Concepts of Race in Britain and the United States Between the World Wars. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. | |
| book Duster T (1990) Backdoor to Eugenics. New York & London: Routledge. | |
| book Friedlander H (1995) The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. | |
| book Kevles DJ (1985) In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity. New York: Alfred A Knopf. | |
| book Pernick MS (1996) The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of Defective” Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures since 1915. New York: Oxford University Press. | |
| book Proctor RN (1988) Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis. Cambridge, MA & London: Harvard University Press. | |
| book Reilly P (1991) The Surgical Solution: A History of Involuntary Sterilization in the United States. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. | |
| book Shipman P (1994) The Evolution of Racism: Human Differences and the Abuse of Science. New York: Simon & Shuster. | |
| book Smith JD (1985) Minds Made Feeble: The Myth and Legacy of the Kallikaks. Rockville, MD: Aspen Systems Corporation. | |
| book Stepan NL (1991) The Hour of Eugenics: Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. | |
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