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Eugenics Movement

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Eugenics Movement
A controversial movement and social initiative that sought ‘better’ breeding with the lofty goal of improving the species
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Woodson Institute series HQ755 In this study of the eugenics movement in Twentieth-century Virginia Dorr (law, jurisprudence and social thought, Amherst College) reaches far beyond the regional and historical topic to its implications for the present world.
Segregation's science; eugenics and society in Virginia by Reference & Research Book News
Francis Galton, the cousin of naturalist Charles Darwin, generally is credited as the thunder of the eugenics movement, but the crusade also drew direct inspiration from Darwin himself, who complained in his book The Descent of Man that civilized societies undermined natural selection by caring for the poor.
What has Darwin wrought? by West, John G. / USA Today (Magazine)
Bell reinvtgorated the eugenics movement in this country.
Ethically Defective by Lauritzen, Paul / Commonweal
 
 
 
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