https://eugenics.net A critical education and archive project documenting the history, harms, and modern bioethics legacy of eugenics and scientific racism. en Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://eugenics.net/eugenics-and-disability-rights.html https://eugenics.net/eugenics-and-disability-rights.html Why disability history and disability rights are central to understanding and critiquing eugenics. Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://eugenics.net/eugenics-and-immigration-policy.html https://eugenics.net/eugenics-and-immigration-policy.html How eugenic ideas shaped immigration restriction, national identity, and racialized ideas about belonging. Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://eugenics.net/eugenics-in-nazi-germany.html https://eugenics.net/eugenics-in-nazi-germany.html How Nazi racial hygiene used eugenic ideology to justify compulsory sterilization, persecution, and the murder of disabled people. Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://eugenics.net/eugenics-in-schools-and-public-health.html https://eugenics.net/eugenics-in-schools-and-public-health.html How eugenic ideas circulated through classrooms, public-health campaigns, fairs, textbooks, and social reform language. Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://eugenics.net/eugenics-iq-and-heredity.html https://eugenics.net/eugenics-iq-and-heredity.html How eugenicists misused intelligence testing, heredity, and statistics to rank people and justify harmful policy. Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://eugenics.net/eugenics-record-office.html https://eugenics.net/eugenics-record-office.html A critical overview of the Eugenics Record Office as an institution that collected family data and promoted eugenic policy. Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://eugenics.net/eugenics-timeline-1883-present.html https://eugenics.net/eugenics-timeline-1883-present.html A critical timeline of eugenics from the coining of the term to modern debates about genetics and bioethics. Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://eugenics.net/modern-eugenics-debate.html https://eugenics.net/modern-eugenics-debate.html A careful guide to the modern eugenics debate around genetic testing, embryo screening, enhancement, disability rights, and social pressure. Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://eugenics.net/teaching-eugenics-responsibly.html https://eugenics.net/teaching-eugenics-responsibly.html A guide for educators teaching eugenics history without normalizing pseudoscience, reproducing harm, or centering propaganda. Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://eugenics.net/why-eugenics-is-scientifically-wrong.html https://eugenics.net/why-eugenics-is-scientifically-wrong.html Why eugenics misread heredity, oversimplified complex traits, and turned prejudice into policy. Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://eugenics.net/buck-v-bell-forced-sterilization.html https://eugenics.net/buck-v-bell-forced-sterilization.html Why Buck v. Bell remains central to the legal and ethical history of eugenic sterilization. Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://eugenics.net/charles-davenport-and-institutional-eugenics.html https://eugenics.net/charles-davenport-and-institutional-eugenics.html A critical profile of Charles Davenport, the Eugenics Record Office, and institutional data power in U.S. eugenics. Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://eugenics.net/crispr-enhancement-new-eugenics.html https://eugenics.net/crispr-enhancement-new-eugenics.html How genome editing debates can distinguish therapy, enhancement, governance, rights, and eugenics risks. Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://eugenics.net/eugenics-and-race.html https://eugenics.net/eugenics-and-race.html How eugenic movements used race as a false biological ranking and how modern genetics rejects racial hierarchy. Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://eugenics.net/eugenics-and-scientific-racism.html https://eugenics.net/eugenics-and-scientific-racism.html How eugenics and scientific racism reinforced one another through measurement, hierarchy, public policy, and institutional authority. Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://eugenics.net/eugenics-in-britain.html https://eugenics.net/eugenics-in-britain.html A critical overview of British eugenics, Francis Galton, UCL legacies, class, empire, and institutional reckoning. Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://eugenics.net/eugenics-in-canada.html https://eugenics.net/eugenics-in-canada.html A critical overview of Canadian eugenics, with attention to Alberta, British Columbia, institutional power, and archive accountability. Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://eugenics.net/eugenics-in-sweden.html https://eugenics.net/eugenics-in-sweden.html A critical overview of Swedish sterilization history and what it shows about welfare states, medical authority, and coercive policy. Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://eugenics.net/eugenics-in-the-united-states.html https://eugenics.net/eugenics-in-the-united-states.html A critical overview of U.S. eugenics, including sterilization laws, immigration policy, public health, education, and institutional authority. Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://eugenics.net/eugenics-vs-genetics.html https://eugenics.net/eugenics-vs-genetics.html How to distinguish genetics as a scientific field from eugenics as an ideology and policy movement. Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://eugenics.net/forced-sterilization-laws.html https://eugenics.net/forced-sterilization-laws.html How forced sterilization laws worked, whom they targeted, and why they remain central to the history of eugenics. Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://eugenics.net/francis-galton-and-the-origin-of-eugenics.html https://eugenics.net/francis-galton-and-the-origin-of-eugenics.html A critical profile of Francis Galton, the coining of eugenics, and the imperial and statistical context around the term. Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://eugenics.net/genetic-testing-embryo-selection-ethical-boundaries.html https://eugenics.net/genetic-testing-embryo-selection-ethical-boundaries.html How to discuss genetic testing and embryo selection without collapsing voluntary care into eugenics or ignoring eugenic risks. Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://eugenics.net/is-eugenics-pseudoscience.html https://eugenics.net/is-eugenics-pseudoscience.html Why eugenics borrowed scientific language while failing scientific, ethical, and human-rights standards. Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://eugenics.net/what-is-eugenics.html https://eugenics.net/what-is-eugenics.html A clear definition of eugenics, why it was harmful, and how to study the term without endorsing its claims. Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT