Beliefs, theories and practices aimed at changing the genetic characteristics of human populations in directions regarded as desirable

Darwinism, medical progress and eugenics : the Cavendish lecture, 1912 an address to the medical profession / by Karl Pearson.

Save lives : first aid : keep me handy / Dr. Martin Sagrera.

The life, letters and labours of Francis Galton / by Karl Pearson.

People should be open and candid with their doctors about hereditary illnesses, so that the German state can act to eliminate them. Colour lithograph, 1933/1945.

Die Hygiene der menschlichen Fortpflanzung : Versuch einer praktischen Eugenik / von Alfred Grotjahn.

"Euthanasie" und die aktuelle Sterbehilfe-Debatte : die historischen Hintergründe medizinischer Ethik / Andreas Frewer, Clemens Eickhoff (Hg.).

399 pages, xi [i.e. 16] pageof plates : illustrations, portraits, plans ; 22 cm.

Las trampas del poder : sanidad, eugenesia y migración : Cuba y Estados Unidos (1900-1940) / Armando García González y Raquel Álvarez Peláez.

Birth control / eugenics bibliography : secondary works.

Alexander Graham Bell, human inheritance, and the eugenics movement / Elizabeth Quance.

viii, 285 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.

Theodor Friedrich Ernst Heynemann (1878-1951) : ein Leben für die Universitäts-Frauenklinik Hamburg-Eppendorf / Christina Quellmann.

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Eugenics

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"Euthanasie" und die aktuelle Sterbehilfe-Debatte : die historischen Hintergründe medizinischer Ethik / Andreas Frewer, Clemens Eickhoff (Hg.).

Las trampas del poder : sanidad, eugenesia y migración : Cuba y Estados Unidos (1900-1940) / Armando García González y Raquel Álvarez Peláez.

Birth control / eugenics bibliography : secondary works.

Alexander Graham Bell, human inheritance, and the eugenics movement / Elizabeth Quance.

Theodor Friedrich Ernst Heynemann (1878-1951) : ein Leben für die Universitäts-Frauenklinik Hamburg-Eppendorf / Christina Quellmann.

Eugenics

Images from the collections

Images about Eugenics

Works from the collections

"Euthanasie" und die aktuelle Sterbehilfe-Debatte : die historischen Hintergründe medizinischer Ethik / Andreas Frewer, Clemens Eickhoff (Hg.).

Las trampas del poder : sanidad, eugenesia y migración : Cuba y Estados Unidos (1900-1940) / Armando García González y Raquel Álvarez Peláez.

Birth control / eugenics bibliography : secondary works.

Alexander Graham Bell, human inheritance, and the eugenics movement / Elizabeth Quance.

Theodor Friedrich Ernst Heynemann (1878-1951) : ein Leben für die Universitäts-Frauenklinik Hamburg-Eppendorf / Christina Quellmann.

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