Eugenics, a social philosophy which advocates the improvement of human hereditary traits through various forms of intervention
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Hrdlička put prominent eugenicist Charles Davenport on the journal's editorial board, and used his connection to the racist and anti-immigrant Madison Grant to obtain funding for his new journal.
It was established in 1925 by Karl Pearson as the Annals of Eugenics, with as subtitle, Darwin's epigram "I have no Faith in anything short of actual measurement and the rule of three".
Experimental zoologist and critic of eugenics, Lancelot Hogben played an active role in the Society in the early 1920s.
This organization, founded by Procter & Gamble heir Clarence Gamble provided experts, written material and monetary support to the eugenics movement.
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Among public and private groups that published articles advocating for eugenics, the Human Betterment League was a significant advocate for the procedure within North Carolina.
Both its founder, Charles Benedict Davenport, and its director, Harry H. Laughlin were major contributors to the field of eugenics in the United States.
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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.
The development of the ranking system of mental deficiency has been attributed to Sir Charles Trevelyan in 1876, and was associated with the rise of eugenics.
Harry John Haiselden (March 16, 1870 - June 18, 1919) was the Chief Surgeon at the German-American Hospital in Chicago in 1915 who refused to perform needed surgery for children born with severe birth defects and allowed the babies to die, in an act of eugenics.
The Human Betterment Foundation, a eugenics organization established in 1928 by E.S. Gosney
She argues that the new eugenics adopted by John Harris, Julian Savulescu and others, collapses into the old variety because of its fixation on producing “the better” or even more implausibly, “the best”.
Future Human Evolution: Eugenics in the Twenty-First Century; preface by Seymour Itzkoff.
While there were critics in the scientific community such as Franz Boas, eugenics and scientific racism were promoted in academia by scientists Lothrop Stoddard and Madison Grant, who argued "scientific evidence" for the racial superiority of whites and thereby worked to justify racial segregation and second-class citizenship for blacks.
Robert DeCourcy Ward (1867–1931), American climatologist and eugenics proponent
"The name was changed without fanfare to University Arboretum in 2005" because of renewed attention to Goethe's virulently racist views, praise of Nazi Germany, and advocacy of eugenics.
The eugenicist Madison Grant argued that the Nordic race had been responsible for most of humanity's great achievements, and that admixture was "race suicide".