Eugenics was a controversial concept shortly after its creation.

Eugenics was practiced around the world and was promoted by governments, and influential individuals and institutions.

Along with Edward L. Thorndike, Yerkes was a member and Chairman of the Committee on Inheritance of Mental Traits, part of the Eugenics Record Office, which was founded by Charles Benedict Davenport, a former teacher of Yerkes at Harvard.

Eugenics was a concept adhered to by many thinkers in the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s, such as Margaret Sanger, Marie Stopes, H. G. Wells, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Emile Zola, George Bernard Shaw, John Maynard Keynes, John Harvey Kellogg, Linus Pauling and Sidney Webb.

Alberta once abandoned an attempt to use the notwithstanding clause to limit lawsuits against the government for past forced sterilizations approved by the Alberta Eugenics Board before the Sexual Sterilization Act was repealed.

Huxley was a prominent member of the British Eugenics Society and its president from 1959 – 1962.

Huxley was a prominent member of the British Eugenics Society, and was Vice-President ( 1937 – 1944 ) and President ( 1959 – 1962 ).

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

Pearson was the first holder of this chair — the Galton Chair of Eugenics, later the Galton Chair of Genetics — in accordance with Galton's wishes.

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.

Her son, Tony Riddick, states, " The work of the Eugenics Board was not far from the thinking of Hitler.

The Eugenics Board of North Carolina ( EBNC ) was a State Board of the state of North Carolina formed in July 1933 by the North Carolina State Legislature by the passage of House Bill 1013, entitled ' An Act to Amend Chapter 34 of the Public Laws of 1929 of North Carolina Relating to the Sterilization of Persons Mentally Defective '.

In the 1970s the Eugenics Board was moved around from department to department, as sterilization operations declined in the state.

Under a 1973 law, the Eugenics Board was transformed into the Eugenics Commission.

The Eugenics Commission was formally abolished by the legislature in 1977.

Burt was a member of the London School of Differential Psychology, and of the British Eugenics Society.

Organized under Dr. Eugen Fischer of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics, it was decided that the children would be sterilized under the 1933 Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring.

He was director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics between 1927 and 1942.

Fischer was prolific, for he was simultaneously working with Charles Davenport at the International Federation of Eugenics Organizations.

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.

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

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.

Dennis Sewell states that " On the day the House of Commons met to debate the Beveridge Report in 1943, its author slipped out of the gallery early in the evening to address a meeting of the Eugenics Society at the Mansion House.

In the early 20th century, Eugenics enjoyed substantial international support, from leading politicians and scientists.

Porteus was an early contributor to Mankind Quarterly, helped William Shockley organize the Foundation for Education on Eugenics and Dysgenics, and served on the executive committee of the International Association for the Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics.

In his early years, he worked as an agricultural explorer and as a scholar of heredity, where he played a prominent ( and, to some in retrospect, notorious ) role in the Eugenics movement of the early twentieth century.

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.

Eugenics in Japan has influenced political, public health and social movements in Japan since the late 19th and early 20th century.

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

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.

* In 1934-president of the Italian Genetics and Eugenics Society.

* In 1935-president of the International Federation of Eugenics Societies in Latin-language Countries.

" 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.

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 became an academic discipline at many colleges and universities, and received funding from many sources.

Three International Eugenics Conferences presented a global venue for eugenicists with meetings in 1912 in London, and in 1921 and 1932 in New York.

* Pulse-Project Audio Lecture: Dr. Octavian Buda on “ From Psychiatry in Dorpat to Eugenics in Munich: The late works of Emil Kraepelin .”

For example, the economist Irving Fisher said in a 1912 address to the Eugenics Research Association: " The Nordic race will ... vanish or lose its dominance if, in fact, the whole human race does not sink so low as to become the prey, as H. G. Wells images, of some less degenerate animal!

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.

Greg Cox's novel The Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh ( Volume 2 ) reveals that Khan's submarine, S. G. K.

He served as Director of the British Eugenics Society from 1937 to 1944.

Future Human Evolution: Eugenics in the Twenty-First Century.

Eugenics is shown as the wave of the future, and yet it is a eugenics that explicitly rejects racism, and can be reconciled with Heinlein's strongly held belief in cultural relativism.

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.