Eugenics

Related keyterms: artificial selection, biometrics, birth control, the Boy Scouts, degeneration, Eugenics Education Society, euthanasia, good breeding, health, negative eugenics, positive eugenics, race, race suicide, selective breeding, social class, social reform, state intervention, sterilization, the unfit

Related figures: Havelock Ellis (1859-1939), Francis Galton (1822-1911), Sarah Grand, William McDougal (1871-1938), Karl Pearson (1857-1936), Marie Stopes (1880-1958)

Also see: Efficiency, Social Darwinism

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