The attempt to improve the PHENOTYPES of future generations of the human population by fostering the reproduction of those with favorable phenotypes and GENOTYPES and hampering or preventing BREEDING by those with undesirable phenotypes and genotypes. The concept is largely discredited. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th ed)
    

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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.

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

Konrad Zacharias Lorenz, 7 November 1903-27 February 1989 : elected For. Mem. R.S. 1964 / by J.R. Krebs and S. Sjölander.

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.

Eugenics, population trends and the world's resources / by G.C.L. Bertram.

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

Konrad Zacharias Lorenz, 7 November 1903-27 February 1989 : elected For. Mem. R.S. 1964 / by J.R. Krebs and S. Sjölander.

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.

Eugenics, population trends and the world's resources / by G.C.L. Bertram.