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Bookmark or Share- Eugenics | Holocaust EncyclopediaEugenics, or “racial hygiene,” was a scientific movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While today eugenics may be regarded as a pseudoscience, it was seen as cutting edge science in the early decades of the twentieth century.
- History of eugenics - WikipediaThe 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 Greece and Rome. The height of the modern eugenics movement came in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- Eugenics | Definition, History, & Facts | BritannicaEugenics is the selection of desired heritable characteristics in order to improve future generations, typically in reference to humans. The term was coined in the 1880s.
- Eugenics: Definition, Movement & Meaning | HISTORYEugenics is the practice or advocacy of improving the human species by selectively mating people with specific desirable hereditary traits. It aims to reduce human suffering by...
- Eugenics - Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyEugenicists had two-fold aims: to encourage people with various desirable traits, e.g., health, intelligence, character, to reproduce together to create good births (what is known as “positive” eugenics), and to end certain diseases and disabilities by discouraging or preventing those with characteristics considered undesirable from ...
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