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Eugenics (from the Greek 蔚峤愇澄滴轿� eugenes 'well-born' from 蔚峤�, 'good, well' and 纬苇谓慰蟼, 'race, stock, kin) is a set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population by excluding (through a variety of morally criticized means) certain genetic groups judged to be inferior, and promoting other genetic groups judged to be superior. The definition of eugenics has been a matter of debate since the term was coined by Francis Galton in 1883. The concept predates the term; Plato suggested applying the principles of selective breeding to humans around 400 BC. Eugenics
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War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race
Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
Necessary Lies (Necessary Lies, #1)
Shutter Island
Eugenics and Other Evils : An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State
Only the Beautiful
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom
The Mismeasure of Man
Second Glance
Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America (American Crossroads)
In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity
Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement
Better for All the World: The Secret History of Forced Sterilization and America's Quest for Racial Purity
Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell

Jonathan Anomaly
I cannot shake the conviction that life is (usually) worth living, and that we should continue to create the conditions for intelligent life to experience beauty, create art, discover how the world works, and continue to set and satisfy goals that presuppose a complex form of intelligence. It is at this point that our intuitions bottom out. If you think that life is pointless, given that we will leave no trace in 20 billion years, it is hard to know how to convince you to believe otherwise. An o ...more
Jonathan Anomaly, Creating Future People

Michael J. Sandel
Those who argue that bioengineering is similar in spirit to other ways ambitious parents shape and mold their children have a point. But this similarity does not give us reason to embrace the genetic manipulation of children. Instead, it gives us reason to question the low-tech, high-pressure child-rearing practices we commonly accept.
Michael J. Sandel, The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering

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