Eugenics in Europe

Richard S. Fogarty

doi:10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.82015-2

Eugenics in Europe

Richard S. Fogarty

Dean's Office - College of Arts & Science

University at Albany

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Abstract

This article surveys the history of eugenics in Europe, noting its origins in the growing comprehension of the power of science to understand the human body and in the increasing ambitions of the state and the social and scientific elites to exert control over the social body. The article then surveys major events and personalities of the eugenics movement in various European countries over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, placing the movement firmly in its political, social, and cultural contexts.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition
Publisher	Elsevier Inc.
Pages	237-245
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Electronic)	9780080970875
ISBN (Print)	9780080970868
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.82015-2
State	Published - Mar 26 2015

Keywords

Biopower
Darwin
Degeneration
Eugenics
Euthanasia
Galton
Genetics
Heredity
Racism
Social hygiene
Sterilization

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