" Eugenics is the self-direction of human evolution ": Logo from the Second International Eugenics Conference, 1921, depicting Eugenics as a tree which unites a variety of different fields.

Eugenics is the " applied science or the bio-social movement which advocates the use of practices aimed at improving the genetic composition of a population ", usually a human population.

Books for younger readers both have historical settings: Joseph Bruchac's The Arrow Over the Door ( 1998 ) ( grades 4-6 ) is set in 1777 ; and Beth Kanell's young adult novel, The Darkness Under the Water ( 2008 ), concerns a young Abenaki-French Canadian girl during the time of the Vermont Eugenics Project, 1931-1936.

Steven Barnes's novelization of " Far Beyond the Stars " partners with Greg Cox's The Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh ( Volume Two ) to tell us that the story " Far Beyond the Stars " — and, by extension, all of Star Trek itself — is the creation of 1950s writer Benny Russell.

An exception is the proceedings of a conference organised by the British Eugenics Society.

Elaine Riddick Jessie ( born Elaine Riddick in 1954 ) is an African-American woman who, as a 14-year-old girl in 1968, was forcibly sterilized by the Eugenics Board of North Carolina, which argued that she was " feebleminded " and " promiscuous.

Eugenics is the " applied science or the bio-social movement which advocates the use of practices aimed at improving the genetic composition of a population, usually referring to human populations.

Secret history is sometimes used in a long-running science fiction or fantasy universe to preserve continuity with the present by reconciling paranormal, anachronistic, or otherwise notable but unrecorded events with what actually happened in known history ; for instance, in the Star Trek universe, Greg Cox's novels The Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh cast the devastating Eugenics Wars of the 1990s ( still well into the future when first mentioned in an episode from 1967 ) as shadow wars most people never knew about, in which such real-life events from that era as the Smiling Buddha nuclear test, the Yugoslav Wars, and the 1992 Los Angeles riots were all part of one wider conflict.

First Officer Spock discovers that the man is Khan Noonien Singh who, along with his people, were products of the Eugenics Wars, where genetic supermen were bred as perfect soldiers.

* Ralph Offenhouse appears in several novels, set both before his appearance here ( such as Star Trek: The Eugenics Wars Volume 1, in which Claire Raymond also receives a mention ) and Debtors ' Planet set after the episode's events, in which it is revealed that after Offenhouse returns to Earth, he becomes active in Federation politics, first serving as ambassador to the Ferengi and then becoming the Federation's Secretary of Commerce.

The Annals of Human Genetics, formerly known as the Annals of Eugenics is a scientific journal concerning human genetics.

The group has collaborated with such artists as Thurston Moore, Merzbow, The Eugenics Council, and Aube ; has played shows with such artists as Sonic Youth, Wolf Eyes, Hair Police, Borbetomagus, Stereolab, Impaler, Melt-Banana, Caroliner Rainbow, BunnyBrains, Illusion of Safety, Sudden Infant, V / Vm and the Nihilist Spasm Band ; and has appeared on compilation releases with such artists as Andrew W. K., Derek Bailey, the Haters, Bruce Gilbert, Today is the Day, Reynols, Harvey Sid Fisher, Bomb20, Jansky Noise, Quintron, The Locust, His Name Is Alive, Jad Fair, John Oswald, Masonna, Hijo Kaidan, Lasse Marhaug and Free Kitten.

Ultimate copyright holder is not certain, but the picture today likely resides in the archives of the American Eugenics Society or the Human Betterment Foundation.

Eugenics is a recurrent theme in science fiction, often with both dystopian and utopian elements.

Also Eugenics is the name for the medical company in La Foire aux immortels book by Enki Bilal and on the Immortel ( Ad Vitam ) movie by the same author.

" He is also encountered in Greg Cox's non-canonical novels The Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, as Dr. Evergreen, a 1980s scientist who discovers a hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica, in Immortal Coil by Jeffrey Lang, and in Federation ( Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens ) as Zefram Cochrane's benefactor Micah Brack.

Eugenics fell out of favor in the middle part of the century and is now widely denounced, though memories of the period continue to influence public policy.

While Mills ' vision of what Odinism involves is still being re-explored and re-evaluated by modern Odinists, nevertheless Mills prefigures many of the concerns of Germanic pagans today-the morally and culturally corrosive effects of Judeo-Christianity, the importance of Eugenics and breeding programmes, the linking of individual with national vitality, the fall from grace of the White Race by being untrue to the spirit of their forefathers, valourisation of heroism, the intrinsic healthiness of freedom of heterosexual expression and so on.

Eugenics and family planning are discussed didactically in the film, and examples of desirable or undesirable children ( the results of good or bad breeding respectively ) are shown.

In the Star Trek franchise, the books The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh ( Volumes 1 & 2 ), by Greg Cox, detail the fictional Eugenics Wars of the early 1990s – still many years into the future when first mentioned in the episode " Space Seed " in 1967 – giving alternative explanations for real world events such as the Indian nuclear test of 1974 and the violent breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, presenting them as small parts of a single wider conflict.

The First International Congress of Eugenics in 1912 was supported by many prominent persons, including: its president Leonard Darwin, the son of Charles Darwin ; honorary vice-president Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty and future Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ; Auguste Forel, famous Swiss pathologist ; Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone ; among other prominent people.

Ward's 1913 article " Eugenics, Euthenics, and Eudemics " and Chesterton's 1917 book Eugenics and Other Evils were harshly critical of the rapidly growing eugenics movement.

* " Eugenics " – National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature Scope Note 28, features overview of eugenics history and annotated bibliography of historical literature

Many organizations and journals that had their origins in the eugenics movement began to distance themselves from the philosophy, as when Eugenics Quarterly became Social Biology in 1969.

He was, nevertheless, a leading figure in the eugenics movement ( see, for example, Eugenics manifesto ).

Nazis based their Eugenics program on the United States ' programs of forced sterilization, especially on the eugenics laws that had been enacted in California.

Sanger, in her campaign to promote birth control, teamed with eugenics organizations such as the American Eugenics Society, although she argued against many of their positions.

By 1918, Popenoe had become well-established enough to co-author a popular college textbook on eugenics ( Applied Eugenics ).

During the early 20th century, Harry H. Laughlin, director of the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor, New York, became concerned that states were not enforcing their eugenics laws.

In 1935, a decade after the passage of Virginia's eugenics laws, Plecker wrote to Walter Gross, director of Nazi Germany ’ s Bureau of Human Betterment and Eugenics.

The Eugenics Record Office ( ERO ) at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States was a center for eugenics and human heredity research in the first half of the twentieth century.

He was the director of the Eugenics Record Office from its inception in 1910 to its closing in 1939, and was among the most active individuals in influencing American eugenics policy, especially compulsory sterilization legislation.

The American Eugenics Society ( AES ) was a society established in 1922 to promote eugenics in the United States.

It was founded in 1907 as the Eugenics Education Society, with the aim of promoting the research and understanding of eugenics.

Along with the American Eugenics Society, it was the most active and influential eugenics advocacy group in the country.

In 1974, Willerman joined the American Eugenics Society, at a time when this society had already moved away from eugenics and towards the study of medical genetics, behavior genetics, and social biology.

Eugenics as a science was hotly debated at the beginning of the 20th, in Jinsei-Der Mensch, the first eugenics journal in the Empire.

His books include The Physicists ( 1978 ), a history of the American physics community, In the Name of Eugenics ( 1985 ), currently the standard text on the history of eugenics in the United States, and The Baltimore Case ( 1998 ), a study of accusations of scientific fraud.

* Eugenics, racism, and conservative ideology ( pt.

* Stefan Kühl, The Nazi connection: Eugenics, American racism, and German National Socialism ( New York: Oxford University Press, 1994 ).

To prevent overpopulation on the Ships, family units can only produce children with the approval of the Ship's Eugenics Council.