The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to eugenics.
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, often through forced sterilization, or promoting that of those considered superior.
Main articles Eugenics History of eugenics
Compulsory sterilization Nazi eugenics Eugenics in the United States Scientific racism Social Darwinism
Reference and navigation Glossary of eugenics Timeline of eugenics Bibliography of eugenics Bibliography of the history of eugenics
Concepts
Designer baby Disability-selective abortion Dysgenics Fertility and intelligence Genetic discrimination New eugenics Race suicide Racial hygiene Social cleansing Social Darwinism Survival of the fittest TESCREAL
Ideologies Eugenic feminism
Eugenic feminism The Famous Five (Canada) Herland (novel) Hildegart Rodríguez Carballeira With Her in Ourland
Scientific racism
1995 University of Maryland conference on crime and genetics Anglo-Saxonism Anthropological criminology Aryanism Ashkenazi Jewish intelligence The Bell Curve Craniometry History of anthropometry History of the race and intelligence controversy Human Diversity Foundation An Investigation of Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus Nordicism Notes and Queries on Anthropology OpenPsych Political abuse of psychiatry Race and intelligence Race, Evolution, and Behavior Race-norming The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy Scientific racism Washington Summit Publishers
History
Eugenics manifesto History of eugenics Medical experimentation in Africa Scientific Charity Movement Social degeneration Social hygiene movement Social purity movement
Compulsory sterilization
Compulsory sterilization Forced contraception of women in Greenland Forced sterilization in Peru Give Us Our Skeletons National Population Program No más bebés Plan Verde
Eugenics by country Canada
Compulsory sterilization in Canada Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada Leilani Muir Sexual Sterilization Act The Sterilization of Leilani Muir
Spain and Latin America
Blanqueamiento Eugenics in Mexico Ham's Redemption Hispanic eugenics Lost children of Francoism Motherhood in Francoist Spain La raza cósmica Women's sexuality in Francoist Spain
Switzerland
Children of the Open Road Human sterilization in Switzerland Kinder der Landstrasse Lubo (film) Mariella Mehr Pro Juventute Swiss children coercion reparation initiative Waldhaus Psychiatric Clinic Genealogical Archives
United Kingdom
Brock Report London Conference on Intelligence Sir Ronald Fisher window
United States
Joe Arridy Average Young American Male (1921) Ben-Ishmael Tribe DezNat Eugenics in California Eugenics in Minnesota Eugenics in Oregon Eugenics in the United States Eugenics Survey of Vermont Heredity Commission Human Biodiversity Institute Immigration Act of 1917 Immigration Act of 1924 Jukes family Pierrepont Noyes Oneida stirpiculture Personal life of Jeffrey Epstein Population Association of America Racial uplift Ralstonism Repository for Germinal Choice State schools for people with disabilities Elizabeth Tuttle Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded
Sterilization in the United States
Arizona State Hospital Buck v. Bell Carrie Buck Compulsory sterilization of disabled people in the U.S. prison system Doe ex. rel. Tarlow v. District of Columbia Nancy Hernandez Ann Cooper Hewitt Irwin County Detention Center Madrigal v. Quilligan La Operación Poe v. Lynchburg Training School & Hospital Relf sisters Skinner v. Oklahoma Sterilization law in the United States Sterilization of Latinas Sterilization of Native American women Stump v. Sparkman U.S. sterilization policies in Puerto Rico Virginia Sterilization Act of 1924
Nazi Germany
Action 14f13 Alles Leben ist Kampf Anton Loibl GmbH Hans Asperger Child euthanasia in Nazi Germany Dasein ohne Leben Deaf organizations during the Holocaust Doctors' Trial Euthanasia trials Expert Committee on Questions of Population and Racial Policy Fischer–Saller scale Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring Lebensborn Life unworthy of life Moringen concentration camp Nazi eugenics Nuremberg Laws Racial policy of Nazi Germany Wilhelm Rediess Friedrich Ruttner Spring of Life (2000 film) Sterilization of deaf people in Nazi Germany Untermensch
Aktion T4
Aktion Brandt Aktion T4 Carlshof Institutions Erbkrank Gemeinnützige Krankentransport GmbH I Accuse (1941 film) Leon Jaworski Provincial Mental Sanatorium Kortau Lothar Kreyssig Massacre of patients at the Kobierzyn psychiatric hospital Memorandum Authorizing Involuntary Euthanasia Memorial to the Victims of National Socialist 'Euthanasia' Killings List of Nazi doctors Nazi euthanasia and the Catholic Church Andreas Rett Alice Ricciardi-von Platen T4-Gutachter Tiergartenstraße
Killing centres
Am Spiegelgrund clinic Bernburg killing centre Brandenburg killing centre Grafeneck killing centre Gugging Hadamar killing centre Hartheim killing centre Kalmenhof Soldau concentration camp Sonnenstein killing centre
People
Rosemarie Albrecht Erich Bauer August Becker Rudolf Beckmann Werner Blankenburg Kurt Bolender Philipp Bouhler Viktor Brack Karl Brandt Paul Bredow Werner Catel Leonardo Conti Max de Crinis Irmfried Eberl Kurt Franz Karl Frenzel Erich Fuchs Ernst-Robert Grawitz Heinrich Gross Lorenz Hackenholt Richard von Hegener Hans Heinze Otto Hellmuth Gottlieb Hering Werner Heyde Josef Hirtreiter Waldemar Hoven Irmgard Huber Ernst Illing Alfred Ittner Helmut Kallmeyer Wilhelm Koppe Erwin Lambert Henryk Mania Friedrich Mauz Willi Mentz Hermann Michel August Miete Paul Nitsche Josef Oberhauser Friedrich Panse Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse Karl Pötzinger Franz Reichleitner Carl-Heinz Rodenberg Carl Schneider Johannes Heinrich Schultz Walter Schultze Franz Schwede Otto Stadie Franz Stangl Ernst Stengelin Karl Steubl Franz Suchomel Siegfried Uiberreither Werner Villinger Gustav Wagner Erich Wasicky Albert Widmann Christian Wirth Franz Wolf (SS officer) Ernst Zierke
Victims
Olga Benário Prestes Adolf Böhm Hilde Ephraim Martin Gauger Paul Gösch Luise Greger Jakob van Hoddis Maria Michał Kowalski Gerhard Kretschmar Carl Langhein Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler Ida Maly Princess Maria Karoline of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Franz Pohl
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology
Wolfgang Abel Peter Emil Becker Eugen Fischer Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics Irawati Karve Fritz Lenz Karin Magnussen Josef Mengele Helmut Poppendick
Other countries
Compulsory sterilisation in Sweden Eugenics in France Eugenics in Japan German interracial marriage debate (1912) Iron Fist Campaign Persecution of Uyghurs in China Population planning in Singapore Something Like a War Uttawar forced sterilisations Volkskörper
Organizations
Adelphi Genetics Forum Alberta Eugenics Board American Association for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality American Eugenics Society Co-operative Women's Guild Elwyn (company) Eugenics Board of North Carolina Eugenics Record Office Foundation for Research and Education on Eugenics and Dysgenics French Foundation for the Study of Human Problems Galton Laboratory German Society for Racial Hygiene Gobineau Association Hereditary Health Court Human Betterment Foundation Human Betterment League Institutions for Defective Delinquents International Association for the Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics International Eugenics Conference International Federation of Eugenics Organizations Julius Klaus-Stiftung Oneida Community Pathfinder International Pioneer Fund Race Betterment Foundation Racial Hygiene Association of New South Wales Rockefeller Foundation Society for the Right to Die State Institute for Racial Biology
People American
Jane Addams Clairette Papin Armstrong Guy W. Bailey Richard Barrett (lawyer) Norman Bel Geddes Maurice Bigelow Elizabeth Blackwell Anna Blount Mary Carson Breckinridge Carl Brigham Lathrop Brown Luther Burbank Guy Irving Burch Edgar Rice Burroughs Charles Codman Cabot William E. Castle Harry Chandler Robert C. Cook John Merle Coulter Earnest Sevier Cox Charles Davenport Gertrude Crotty Davenport Eugenie Mary Ladenburg Davie James J. Davis Joseph DeJarnette Lydia Allen DeVilbiss Charles Fremont Dight Malcolm Donald George Draper (physician) Wickliffe Draper W. E. B. Du Bois George Eastman Thomas F. Ellis Jeffrey Epstein Arthur Estabrook Henry Pratt Fairchild Samuel Simeon Fels Walter E. Fernald Irving Fisher Diana Fleischman Joseph Fletcher Clarence Gamble Henry Garrett (psychologist) Marcus Garvey Charlotte Perkins Gilman John Glad Henry H. Goddard Charles Goethe Willystine Goodsell E. S. Gosney Linda Gottfredson Robert Klark Graham Madison Grant A. James Gregor Henry Rice Guild Alan Frank Guttmacher Harry J. Haiselden Prescott F. Hall Richard Hanania Garrett Hardin John Marshall Harlan II Moses Harman Henry Harpending Mary Williamson Harriman James L. Hart Frederick W. Hatch (psychiatrist) Willet M. Hays Martin Luther Holbrook Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Samuel Jackson Holmes Luther Emmett Holt Aleš Hrdlička Ellsworth Huntington Henry S. Huntington Dwight Ingle William T. Innes Augustus Sol Invictus Seymour Itzkoff Herbert Spencer Jennings Albert Johnson (Washington politician) Roswell Hill Johnson David Starr Jordan Helen Keller Ida Augusta Keller John Harvey Kellogg Robert Foster Kennedy Wilhelmine Key Ben Klassen Rufus B. von KleinSmid Sigard Adolphus Knopf James P. Kranz Jr. Wallace Kuralt Robert E. Kuttner Walter Landauer Christopher Langan Harry H. Laughlin Anton LaVey Joseph LeConte Joshua Lederberg William Gordon Lennox Nell Battle Lewis Charles Lindbergh C. C. Little Lana Lokteff Jack London Madge Macklin Charles Martin (Oregon politician) Onera Amelia Merritt-Hawkes Adolf Meyer (psychiatrist) Edward M. Miller William Dawes Miller Robert Millikan Alice Lee Moqué Edwin D. Morgan (businessman) George Van Horn Moseley Hermann Joseph Muller Marian Olden Frederick Osborn Henry Fairfield Osborn R. Travis Osborne Marion A. Parrott Russell Pearce William Dudley Pelley Elmer Pendell Henry Farnham Perkins Cornelia Marvin Pierce Walter M. Pierce Walter Plecker Paul Popenoe Charles Francis Potter A. S. Priddy William J. Robinson John D. Rockefeller Jr. Aaron Rosanoff Mary Harriman Rumsey Herbert Charles Sanborn Margaret Sanger Karl Schakel Ada Estelle Schweitzer Harry L. Shapiro Harry Clay Sharp William Herbert Sheldon William Shockley William Gayley Simpson Elmer Ernest Southard Randolph L. Speight Leo Stanley Morris Steggerda Lothrop Stoddard Aubrey E. Strode Donald A. Swan John Tanton F. W. Taussig Woolsey Teller Lewis Terman Nikola Tesla Edward Thorndike Allen W. Thurman William Lawrence Tower John B. Trevor Jr. John B. Trevor Sr. Victor C. Vaughan Daniel Vining Jr. Stephen Sargent Visher Walter L. Voegtlin August Vollmer Francis E. Walter Robert DeCourcy Ward Harry F. Weyher Jr. Nathaniel Weyl Mary Traffarn Whitney Albert E. Wiggam Abraham Wolbarst Victoria Woodhull Robert Yerkes
Australian
Nicholas Agar Richard Arthur (Australian politician) Richard James Arthur Berry Angela Elizabeth Booth John Eldridge (politician) Lillie Goodisson Aubrey Lewis Marion Louisa Piddington Stanley Porteus Ruby Sophia Rich
Austrian