Eugenics

Eugenics is a social philosophy which advocates the improvement of human hereditary traits through social intervention. The goals have variously been to create more intelligent people, save society resources, lessen human suffering and reduce health problems. Proposed means of achieving these goals most commonly include birth control, selective breeding, and genetic engineering. Critics argue eugenics has been applied as a pseudoscience, that it has a potential for objectifiying human characteristics and note that historically it has been a means whereby social thinking culminated in coercive state-sponsored discrimination and human rights violations, even genocide.

External links

Anti-eugenics and historical websites

• Eugenics Archive - Historical Material on the Eugenics Movement (funded by the Human Genome Project)
• Eugenics Watch
• Shoaheducation.com:Eugenics
• Vermont Eugenics: A Documentary History
• University of Virginia Historical Collections: Eugenics
• "Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race" (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibit)
• DNA: Pandora's Box - PBS documentary about DNA, the Human Genome Project, and questions about a "new" eugenics
• Fighting Fire with Fire: African Americans and Hereditarian Thinking, 1900-1942 - article on the support of eugenics by African American thinkers
• "Eugenics -- Breeding a Better Citizenry Through Science", a historical critique from physical anthropologist Jonathan Marks

Pro-eugenics websites

• Eugenics - a planned evolution for life
• The Eugenics List - Yahoo group
• Future Generations Eugenics Portal
• Creative Conscious Evolution: A Eugenics Directory
• Mankind Quarterly
• Future Human Evolution: Eugenics in the Twenty-First Century by John Glad
• Scandalizing the Science of Eugenics

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