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    Eugenics (/juːˈdʒɛnɪks/ yoo-JEN-iks; from Ancient Greek εύ̃ (eû) 'good, well', and -γενής (genḗs) 'come into being, growing') is a set of beliefs and practices...
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    The social policies of eugenics in Nazi Germany were composed of various ideas about genetics. The racial ideology of Nazism placed the biological improvement...
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  • Eugenics, the set of beliefs and practices which aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population, played a significant role in the history...
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  • The history of eugenics is the study of development and advocacy of ideas related to eugenics around the world. Early eugenic ideas were discussed in Ancient...
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    Eugenics in California is a notable part of eugenics in the United States. As an early leading force in the field of eugenics, California became the third...
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  • Eugenics wars may refer to: In the Star Trek fictional universe, the Eugenics Wars are a series of conflicts that occurred between 1992 and 1996, in which...
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  • New eugenics, also known as liberal eugenics (a term coined by bioethicist Nicholas Agar), advocates enhancing human characteristics and capacities through...
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  • separate from the Eugenics Wars; SNW's "Strange New World" retcons it to taking place in the 21st century, prior to WWIII.) 1996 The Eugenics Wars end. (WWIII...
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  • Hispanic eugenics are a positive eugenics based around political purification of a people. These ideas were first expounded upon in the 1930s by men like...
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  • Sybil Gotto in 1907 as the Eugenics Education Society, with the aim of promoting the research and understanding of eugenics. Members came predominately...
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  • The Eugenics Record Office (ERO), located in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States, was a research institute that gathered biological and social...
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  • The American Eugenics Society (AES) was a pro-eugenics organization dedicated to "furthering the discussion, advancement, and dissemination of knowledge...
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  • Revolution, the eugenics movement gained prominence in Mexico. Seeking to change the genetic make-up of the country's population, proponents of eugenics in Mexico...
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    race). He was the Galton Professor of Eugenics at University College London and editor of the Annals of Eugenics. Fisher was born in East Finchley in London...
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    sterilizations persist. Rationalizations for compulsory sterilization have included eugenics, population control, gender discrimination, limiting the spread of HIV...
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  • The Alberta Eugenics Board was an agency created by the Alberta government in 1928 that attempted to impose sterilization on a disabled subset of its population...
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  • Eugenics has influenced political, public health and social movements in Japan since the late 19th and early 20th century. Originally brought to Japan...
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    geologist and eugenics advocate. He was the president of the American Museum of Natural History for 25 years and a cofounder of the American Eugenics Society...
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  • the Eugenics Record Office from its inception in 1910 to its closure in 1939, and was among the most active individuals influencing American eugenics policy...
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    February 18, 1944) was a biologist and eugenicist influential in the American eugenics movement. Davenport was born in Stamford, Connecticut, to Amzi Benedict...
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  • Eugenics manifesto was the name given to an article supporting eugenics, published in 1939 in the journal Nature, entitled Social Biology and Population...
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    Three International Eugenics Congresses took place between 1912 and 1932 and were the global venue for scientists, politicians, and social leaders to plan...
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  • full-length, Inhuman Grotesqueries, on August 7, 2007. The band released Eugenics, its third full-length, in 2012, their first concept record, it deals with...
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  • Gattaca (category Films about eugenics)
    appearing in supporting roles. The film presents a future society driven by eugenics where potential children are conceived through genetic selection to ensure...
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    The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics was founded in 1927 in Berlin, Germany. The Rockefeller Foundation partially...
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  • War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race is a 2003 book by historian and journalist Edwin Black. Overall, War Against...
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    conducted on himself in 1896. He supported eugenics and served as one of 16 vice-presidents of the Eugenics Society from 1909 to 1912. Ellis, son of Edward...
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    was a component of the women's suffrage movement which overlapped with eugenics. Originally coined by the eugenicist Caleb Saleeby, the term has since...
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    others, emphasizing struggle between national or racial groups, support eugenics, racism, imperialism and/or fascism. Social Darwinism declined in popularity...
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  • Rockefeller Foundation (category Eugenics organizations)
    a statement condemning eugenics and supporting the anti-eugenics movement. He stated that "[...]we commend the Anti-Eugenics Project for their essential...
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