Eugenics

National Socialism

Population Control

Political Systems

Sterilization, Involuntary

Genetic Enhancement

Greek World

Genocide

Mandatory Programs

History, 20th Century

Portraits as Topic

History, 19th Century

Genetics, Medical

Wedge Argument

Supreme Court Decisions

Genetic Diseases, Inborn

Sterilization, Reproductive

Social Values

International Eugenics Congress1

• He was a vice president of the First International Eugenics Congress, which met in London in 1912 to hear papers on "racial suicide" among Northern Europeans and similar topics. (harvardmagazine.com)

Francis Galton4

• Recently uncovered documents show that Edwards served on the organization's Council -its leadership body-as a trustee on three separate occasions: from 1968 to 1970, 1971 to 1973 and once again from 1995 to 1997 after the group euphemistically renamed itself ' The Galton Institute ' for the founder of the eugenics movement, Francis Galton . (scientificamerican.com)
• The exact definition of eugenics has been a matter of debate since the term was coined by Francis Galton in 1883. (bushywood.com)
• In 1966, Potts wrote articles in the Eugenics Review , one of the original racist, eugenic scientific journals that came from the Galton Institute itself, formerly known as the British Eugenics Society.whose, namesake, Francis Galton , coined the term "eugenics. (wakingtimes.com)
• Indeed, Francis Galton, the founder of the concepts of statistical correlation, also coined the phrase eugenics and advocated for avoiding racial admixture ( Markel 2018 ). (nih.gov)

Global eugenics1

• He also lent his considerable prestige to the campaign to build a global eugenics movement. (harvardmagazine.com)

Heredity1

• The Eugenics Record Office ( ERO ), located in Cold Spring Harbor, New York , United States , was a research institute that gathered biological and social information about the American population, serving as a center for eugenics and human heredity research from 1910 to 1939. (wikipedia.org)

19104

• The leading student and promoter of eugenics in the United States for over a quarter century was Charles Davenport (1866-1944), director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's Eugenics Record Office from 1910 to 1940, part of the Station for Experimental Evolution. (nih.gov)
• The eugenics movement attracted social activists such as Moses Harman (1830-1910), who pursued his goal through The Eugenic Magazine . (nih.gov)
• Charles Davenport, A.B. 1889, Ph.D. '92, a classmate of Prescott Hall, founded the Eugenics Record Office in 1910, and promoted ideas that led to the sterilization of Carrie Buck (next image). (harvardmagazine.com)
• Eugenics and modern biology: critiques of eugenics, 1910-1945. (nih.gov)

Movement15

• The eugenics movement, which had begun in England and was rapidly spreading in the United States, insisted that human progress depended on promoting reproduction by the best people in the best combinations, and preventing the unworthy from having children. (harvardmagazine.com)
• Its mission was to collect substantial information on the ancestry of the American population, to produce propaganda that was made to fuel the eugenics movement, and to promote the idea of race-betterment. (wikipedia.org)
• The eugenics movement was popular and viewed as progressive in the early-twentieth-century United States. (wikipedia.org)
• California was considered an epicenter of the American eugenics movement. (hnn.us)
• Much of the spiritual guidance and political agitation for the American eugenics movement came from California's quasi-autonomous eugenic societies, such as the Pasadena-based Human Betterment Foundation and the California branch of the American Eugenics Society, which coordinated much of their activity with the Eugenics Research Society in Long Island. (hnn.us)
• The Bush family, the Harriman family - the Wall Street business partners of Bush in financing Hitler - and the Rockefeller family are the elite of the American eugenics movement. (pakalertpress.com)
• The eugenics philosophy not only fed her work within the Planned Parenthood movement but also her lesser known advocacy of euthanasia. (all.org)
• But there was also a dark side to the eugenics movement that encouraged the state to pass laws to stop 'unfit' people from procreating. (ranker.com)
• As far as I can tell from my cohorts in the eugenics' movement, we give little concern to a shortage of food. (euvolution.com)
• In its twentieth century forms, the eugenics movement comprised many diverse and often contrary directions, from racially motivated state oppression to efforts to empower families. (medscape.com)
• Nevertheless, two features of the eugenics movement that made it so destructive were ill-founded (often crackpot) genetic science and state control and coercion of individual reproductive choice. (medscape.com)
• Some who have studied the movement ask whether it is not this coercive dimension, rather than a concern with genetic improvement, that was the core problem with eugenics. (medscape.com)
• An interview with Rana A. Hogarth, PhD on her NLM History Talk and her research on legacies of slavery in the early eugenics movement. (nih.gov)
• This paper proposes an examination of the origins and postulates of Eugenics, which is conceived as a social, political and scientific movement that intended to improve the biological heritage in order to solve mankind's mental degeneration and decay. (bvsalud.org)
• The environmental health sciences (EHS) community has joined this movement by pledging to enhance diversity within its ranks ( McCarthy 2020 ), launching new initiatives on environmental health equity, and atoning for its own racist history and past relationship with the eugenics movement ( Brune 2020 ). (nih.gov)

Nazis4

• The Nazis invoked eugenics to justify the extermination of people with disabilities, Jews, and other marginalized populations. (scientificamerican.com)
• These organizations--which functioned as part of a closely-knit network--published racist eugenic newsletters and pseudoscientific journals, such as Eugenical News and Eugenics , and propagandized for the Nazis. (hnn.us)
• Depopulation, also known as eugenics, is quite another thing and was proposed under the Nazis during World War II. (pakalertpress.com)
• Eugenics was popular in the United States long before Nazis like Dr. Josef Mengele used it to promote racial purity. (ranker.com)

Cold Spring1

• From Cold Spring Harbor, eugenics advocates agitated in the legislatures of America, as well as the nation's social service agencies and associations. (hnn.us)

19371

• Samuel Jackson Holmes , who published a 1924 paper titled "A bibliography of eugenics," at Berkeley, in 1937 he writing , "The Negros' Struggle For Survival. (wakingtimes.com)

Racist2

• Eugenics was the racist pseudoscience determined to wipe away all human beings deemed "unfit," preserving only those who conformed to a Nordic stereotype. (hnn.us)
• These academicians espoused race theory and race science, and then faked and twisted data to serve eugenics' racist aims. (hnn.us)

Britain2

• One detail omitted from the obituaries published around the world was that Edwards was a member in good standing of the Eugenics Society in Britain for much of his career. (scientificamerican.com)
• HISTORY OF EUGENICS - In 1907, the eugenics Education Society was founded in Britain to campaign for sterilisation and marriage restrictions for the weak to prevent the degeneration of Britain's population. (bushywood.com)

Legacy2

• Elements of a counter-exhibition: Excavating and countering a Canadian history and legacy of eugenics. (nih.gov)
• Today, figures such as Malcolm Potts carry Thomas Malthus' legacy, and the legacy of the British family who originated eugenics: the Darwin-Galton-Wedgewood-Huxley family . (wakingtimes.com)

Unfit1

• Negative eugenics sought to actively discourage "unfit" people from procreating. (ranker.com)

Discourage1

• Framed in this manner, eugenics has held an appeal to dictatorial and authoritarian regimes seeking to eradicate or discourage the growth of disfavored groups. (scientificamerican.com)

California1

• California eugenicists played an important, although little known, role in the American eugenics movement's campaign for ethnic cleansing. (hnn.us)

Society9

• Sanger was an enthusiastic proponent of eugenics and a member of the American Eugenics Society. (all.org)
• In 1938, just a few years prior to Sanger's American Birth Control League (ABCL) changing its name to Planned Parenthood, a group of American Eugenics Society Members and members of Margaret Sanger's American Birth Control League (ABCL) formed the National Society for the Legalization of Euthanasia. (all.org)
• Henry P. Fairchild, who was a past president of the American Eugenics Society and a vice-president of Planned Parenthood. (all.org)
• Frank L. Babbott (Vice President of the Euthanasia Society), who was a founding member of the American Eugenics Society. (all.org)
• Frank H. Hankins, who was a managing editor of Margaret Sanger's Birth Control Review as well as an American Eugenics Society member. (all.org)
• At the beginning of the 20th century, eugenics was seen as cutting-edge science that could improve society. (ranker.com)
• Galton theorized two ways that eugenics could help society, which he called positive and negative eugenics. (ranker.com)
• Sanger was actually a highly effective voice of eugenics and an official member of the American Eugenics Society (under the name Mrs. Noah Slee). (paradigmcollision.com)
• Eugenics Education Society? (goobi.io)

Record Office2

• The endeavors of the Eugenics Record Office were facilitated by the work of various committees. (wikipedia.org)
• In 1914, eugenicist Harry Laughlin, who was head of the Eugenics Record Office proposed a " eugenical sterilization law " that would stop the feebleminded from reproducing. (ranker.com)

History2

• But the history of eugenics in Virginia led to a pair of terrible laws that allowed the state to sterilize people against their will and ban whites from marrying non-whites. (ranker.com)
• Malcolm Potts is a Malthusian figure with deep roots in the history of eugenics. (wakingtimes.com)

Harvard1

• Harvard administrators, faculty members, and alumni were at the forefront of American eugenics-founding eugenics organizations, writing academic and popular eugenics articles, and lobbying government to enact eugenics laws. (harvardmagazine.com)

Publication1

• It references Darwinian eugenics ideas right off the bat, like this affectionate publication about Thomas Malthus also from UC Berkeley. (wakingtimes.com)

Aims1

• Eugenics is a set of beliefs and practices that aims at improving the genetic quality of a human population. (bushywood.com)

Racial1

• Eugenicists like Harry Laughlin promoted new laws based on eugenics like Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924 . (ranker.com)

American1

• is also the same language that eugenics spokespersons were using to sell eugenics to a wider American audience, which is to say that eugenics is like a gardener who is tending to the garden of humanity-that the weeds in the garden of humanity should be pulled, so that the good plants can grow. (metamia.com)

Social3

• Coined by Galton in the late 1800s to mean 'well-born,' eugenics became a dominant aspect of Western intellectual life and social policy during the first half of the 20th century. (scientificamerican.com)
• And as a social philosophy eugenics also received approbation and financial support from the wealthy and other elites-particularly in the U.S. It was followed by the likes of philanthropists John D. Rockefeller and Nobel Prize-winning scientists such as William Shockley and Alexis Carrel . (scientificamerican.com)
• Negative eugenics promised a solution to these social problems by ensuring that the feebleminded could not reproduce. (ranker.com)

Decades1

• A contribution to the compensation program might be a decent apology for Carnegie's support of North Carolina's more than four decades of officially sanction eugenics. (nonprofitquarterly.org)

Author1

• Edwin Black is the author of " IBM and the Holocaust " and " War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race ," from which the following article is drawn. (hnn.us)

Scientific2

• Eugenics was born as a scientific curiosity in the Victorian age. (hnn.us)
• But eugenics provided a "scientific" argument to ban interracial marriage. (ranker.com)

Articles1

• William Schambra of the Hudson Institute has in many articles described the connection of the Carnegie Corporation to the North Carolina eugenics program, including this one from the Chronicle of Philanthropy . (nonprofitquarterly.org)

World Wa2

• Though now associated with the abhorrent and discredited policies of the Nazi state, before World War II eugenics had a wide following among scientists, politicians, and writers around the world. (nih.gov)
• Eugenics was duly stigmatized after World War II when the world saw the horrors of its most infamous implementation, the Holocaust. (scientificamerican.com)

Science1

• Eugenics attracted considerable support from progressives, reformers, and educated elites as a way of using science to make a better world. (harvardmagazine.com)

Ways1

• Ultimately, eugenics practitioners coercively sterilized some 60,000 Americans, barred the marriage of thousands, forcibly segregated thousands in "colonies," and persecuted untold numbers in ways we are just learning. (hnn.us)

Education2

• Positive eugenics promoted the use of education, tax incentives, and payments for healthy children to encourage the "right" people to procreate. (ranker.com)
• Sanger had received her education in eugenics from Havelock Ellis, who according to some was also her lover and the individual who heightened her interest in the occult. (paradigmcollision.com)

Perspective1

• Here's some perspective on its popularity: even Helen Keller supported eugenics . (ranker.com)

Program6

• The Rockefeller Foundation helped found the German eugenics program and even funded the program that Josef Mengele worked in before he went to Auschwitz. (hnn.us)
• Between 1929 and 1974, North Carolina's eugenics program sterilized 7,600 people, some by choice, but many by force or coercion. (nonprofitquarterly.org)
• And slipping through the cracks may be the role of an important foundation or two in facilitating the state's eugenics program. (nonprofitquarterly.org)
• According to Schambra, Carnegie provided grant support and encouragement to the "genetics program" medical school that is now at Wake Forest and that played a cheerleading role behind the state's eugenics program. (nonprofitquarterly.org)
• We simply think they are irrelevant as are all races as a new species will be coming out of our eugenics' program, and I cannot see how anyone will be able to stop it. (euvolution.com)
• Welfare is in fact a dysgenic program that seems to go unnoticed, while eugenics is decried by the stumbling incompetent masses. (euvolution.com)

State1

• If North Carolina follows through with a plan to compensate its eugenics victims, it will be the first state to do so. (nonprofitquarterly.org)

Introduction1

• Following is the introduction to the Eugenics Watch web site ( www.eugenics-watch.com ). (euvolution.com)

Argument1

• Supported by the argument that the eugenics office would collect information for human genetics research, Davenport convinced the Carnegie Institute to establish the ERO. (wikipedia.org)