During the first half of the twentieth century, supporters of the eugenics movement offered an image of a racially transformed America by curtailing the reprodu

How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years? Control is a book about eugenics, what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls

An investigative journalist peels back the lid on a shameful century of mass sterilization and human breeding programs in the U.S. that began in 1904 with a lar

This volume assesses the history of eugenics in the United States and its status in the age of the Human Genome Project. The essays explore the early support of