Eugenics
Basics
On the Web: Articles
Eugenics Movement Reaches its Height, 1923.
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Articles
Kopp, M.E. "Eugenic sterilization laws in Europe," American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology 34 (1937):499-504.
Mitchell, David & Sharon Snyder. "The eugenic Atlantic: race, disability, & the making of an international eugenic science, 1800-1945," Disability & Society 18,5 (8/03).
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Biesold, Horst. Crying Hands: Eugenics & Deaf People in Nazi Germany (Washington: Gallaudet, 1999).
Black, Edwin. War Against the Weak: Eugenics & America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race (NY: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002).
Bucur, Maria. Eugenics & Modernization in Inter-War Romania (Pittsburgh: U. Pittsburgh, 2002).
Chesterton, G.K. Eugenics & Other Evils (London: Cassell, 1922).
Chung, Yuehtsien Juliette. Struggle for National Survival: Eugenics in Sino-Japanese Contexts, 1896-1945 (NY: Routledge, 2002).
Cleminson, Richard. Anarchism, Science & Sex: Eugenics in Eastern Spain, 1900-1937 (NY: P. Lang, 2000).
Cogdell, Christina. Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania, 2004).
Franks, Angela. Margaret Sanger's Eugenic Legacy: Controlling Female Fertility (Jefferson NC: MacFarland, 2005).
Galton, David J. In Our Own Image: Eugenics & the Genetic Modification of People (London: Little, Brown, 2001).
Gilham, Nicholas Wright. A Life of Sir Francis Galton: From African Exploration to the Birth of Eugenics (NY: Oxford, 2002).
Haller, Mark H. Eugenics: Hereditarian Attitudes in American Thought (New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers, 1984).
Kerr, Ann & Tom Shakespeare. Genetic Politics: From Eugenics to Genome (Cheltenham: New Clarion, 2002).
Kuhl, Stefan. The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism & German National Socialism (London, 1994).
Lombardo, Paul A. Eugenics: Lessons from a History Hiding in Plain Sight (Sacramento CA: Senate, 2003).
Mitchell, David & Sharon Snyder (eds.) Eugenics in America, 1848-1945 (Beverley Hills CA: Sage, 2004). Primary documents.
Oram, Gerard. Worthless Men: Race, Eugenics & the Death Penalty in the British Army during the First World War (London: Francis Boutle, 1998).
Pernick, Martin S. The Black Stork: Eugenics & the Death of "Defective" Babies in American Medicine & Motion Pictures since 1915 (NY: Oxford, 1996).
Reilly, Philip. The Surgical Solution: A History of Involuntary Sterilization in the US (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1991).
Richardson, Angelique. Love & Eugenics in the Late 19th C.: Rational Reproduction & the New Woman (NY: Oxford, 2003).
Shockley, William. Shockley on Eugenics & Race: The Application of Science to the Solution of Human Problems (ed. Roger Pearson; Washington: Scott-Townsend, 1992).
Thomson, Mathew. The Problem of Mental Deficiency: Eugenics, Democracy, & Social Policy in Britain, c.1870-1959 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1998).
In the Library: Fiction