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Eugenics Movement

Introduction

Eugenics Movement, reform movement of the early 20th century that aimed to achieve social and biological evolution through selective human breeding.

Contributed By:
Dorothy Porter, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
_{Professor in the History of Health Sciences, University of California San Francisco. Author, Health, Civilisation and the State: a History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times; Social Medicine and Medical Sociology in the Twentieth Century; and The History of Health and the Modern State. Co-author, In Sickness and in Health: the British Experience 1650-1850; Patient's Progress: Doctors and Doctoring in Eighteeth-Century England; and Changing Disciplines. Co-editor, Doctors, Politics and Society: Historical Essays; and The Codification of Medical Ethics. The Eighteenth Century, Vol. 1.}