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eugenics

Also known as stirpiculture, viriculture

thumb|upright=1.5|1930s exhibit by the Eugenics Society. Some of the signs read "Healthy and Unhealthy Families", "[[Heredity as the Basis of Efficiency", and "Marry Wisely".]]

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Eugenics was a movement that promoted the idea of improving human populations through selective breeding and heredity, as illustrated by 1930s exhibits encouraging people to "marry wisely" based on concepts of healthy versus unhealthy families. It matters because this ideology was used to justify harmful policies and discrimination, making it an important cautionary example in the history of science and social policy.

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Research

9,113 papers

Eugenics and Involuntary Sterilization: 1907-2015.ReviewAnnual review of genomics and human genetics · 2015Reilly PRDOI: 10.1146/annurev-genom-090314-024930
Eugenics.The Eugenics review · 1967Pelly HR
Eugenics and its relevance to contemporary health care.ReviewNursing ethics · 2000Iredale RDOI: 10.1177/096973300000700303
What is eugenics?The Eugenics review · 1947BLACKER CP
[Eugenics and human cloning].ReviewMedycyna wieku rozwojowego · 2001Boloz W
Eugenics and photography in Britain, the USA and Australia 1870-1940.Studies in history and philosophy of science · 2022Maxwell ADOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.01.005
Science and pseudo science: racist eugenics in Italy.Pathologica · 2023Patriarca C, Modena P, Massimino M et al.DOI: 10.32074/1591-951X-844
Eugenics and modern biology: critiques of eugenics, 1910-1945.ReviewAnnals of human genetics · 2011Allen GEDOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2011.00649.x

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Contents

Common distinctions
As opposed to "euthenics"
Historical eugenics
Ancient and medieval origins
Academic origins
Early opposition
Eugenic feminism
North American eugenics
In Mexico
Nazism and the decline of eugenics
In Singapore
Modern eugenics
Contested scientific status
Arguments for scientific validity
Objections to scientific validity
Contested ethical status
Contemporary ethical opposition
Contemporary ethical advocacy
In popular culture
See also
References
Notes
External links

thumb|upright=1.5|1930s exhibit by the Eugenics Society. Some of the signs read "Healthy and Unhealthy Families", "[[Heredity as the Basis of Efficiency", and "Marry Wisely".]]

Eugenics is a largely discredited set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population. Historically, eugenicists have attempted to alter the frequency of various human phenotypes by inhibiting the fertility of those considered inferior, or promoting that of those considered superior.