eugenics
Human breeding science
Eugenics is the idea of improving human populations through selective breeding—encouraging reproduction among people deemed genetically "fit" while discouraging or preventing it among those deemed "unfit." The term now carries heavy stigma due to its association with forced sterilization programs and Nazi racial policies.
Eugenics was taught as legitimate science in American universities into the 1930s.
The adjective is eugenic.
Systematic annihilation of a people
- holocaustLarge-scale fiery destruction
- ethnic cleansingSystematic removal of populations
- forced sterilizationInvoluntary surgical infertility
- massacreLarge-scale unlawful killing
extermination · pogrom · internment · deportation · ethnocide · purge · concentration camp · mass murder
Genetic trait transmission
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
- selective breedingControlled reproduction for traits
- traitsDistinguishing personal features
- genesUnits of heredity
phenotype · mutation · dominant · recessive · pedigree · germline · chromosomes · DNA
Highest rank or power
- NazismGerman fascist totalitarianism
- white supremacyDoctrine of racial superiority
- neo-NazismRevived totalitarian racial ideology
- ÜbermenschSelf-surpassing human ideal
master race · racial purity · social Darwinism · KKK · racial hierarchy · racial hygiene
Moral philosophy for medicine
- consentVoluntary agreement given
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
- coercionPressured compliance through threats
- human dignityIntrinsic worth of persons
bodily autonomy · reproductive rights · informed consent · human rights · disability rights · medical ethics · dilemma · beneficence
Skull-bump personality assessment
- physiognomyCharacter from appearance
- anthropometryScience of body measurements
- craniologyStudy of skull characteristics
- racial typologyCategorizing humans by perceived ancestry
scientific racism · feeble-mindedness · moron · imbecile · unfit · defective · IQ testing · mental deficiency
Complete elimination of microbes
- institutionalizationEstablishing as norm or standard
- immigration restrictionLimiting entry to country
- marriage lawsStatutes governing legal unions
- segregationForced separation by group
asylum · immigration act · quota system · deportation · castration · lobotomy · state custody
US social reform period
- DavenportCity or couch
- Nazi GermanyHitler's fascist dictatorship
- NurembergGerman trial city
genocide
Systematic annihilation of a people
- holocaustLarge-scale fiery destruction
- ethnic cleansingSystematic removal of populations
- forced sterilizationInvoluntary surgical infertility
massacre · extermination · pogrom · internment · deportation · ethnocide · purge · concentration camp · mass murder · racial hygiene
heredity
Genetic trait transmission
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
- selective breedingControlled reproduction for traits
- traitsDistinguishing personal features
genes · phenotype · mutation · dominant · recessive · pedigree · germline · chromosomes · DNA · alleles
supremacy
Highest rank or power
- NazismGerman fascist totalitarianism
- white supremacyDoctrine of racial superiority
- neo-NazismRevived totalitarian racial ideology
Übermensch · master race · racial purity · social Darwinism · KKK · racial hierarchy · racial hygiene
bioethics
Moral philosophy for medicine
- consentVoluntary agreement given
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
- coercionPressured compliance through threats
human dignity · bodily autonomy · reproductive rights · informed consent · human rights · disability rights · medical ethics · dilemma · beneficence · justice
phrenology
Skull-bump personality assessment
- physiognomyCharacter from appearance
- anthropometryScience of body measurements
- craniologyStudy of skull characteristics
racial typology · scientific racism · feeble-mindedness · moron · imbecile · unfit · defective · IQ testing · mental deficiency
sterilization
Complete elimination of microbes
- institutionalizationEstablishing as norm or standard
- immigration restrictionLimiting entry to country
- marriage lawsStatutes governing legal unions
segregation · asylum · immigration act · quota system · deportation · castration · lobotomy · state custody
Progressive Era
US social reform period
- DavenportCity or couch
- Nazi GermanyHitler's fascist dictatorship
- NurembergGerman trial city
- obsolete sciencephlogiston, aether, phlogiston theory, ether, caloric
- 20th CenturyWorld War I aftermath, Cuban Missile Crisis, atomic bomb, New Deal, Nazi Germany
- Dystopia1984, Nineteen Eighty-Four, dystopian fiction, totalitarianism, Brave New World
- hereditygenes, DNA, chromosomes, genetics, genome
- bioethicsbioethics, medical ethics, beneficence, non-maleficence, physician-assisted death
- disabilitydisability rights, disability culture, disability activism, disability services, disability identity
eugenicsenvironmentalism
Advocacy for nature protection
nurture · tabula rasa · acquirement · learned behavior · social reform
eugenicsnatural selection
Differential reproductive success
evolution · genetic drift · random mutation · reproductive freedom