Bibliography
History of Eugenics
Adams, Mark, ed. The Wellborn Science: Eugenics in Germany, France, Brazil and Russia (New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990)
Bajema, Carl L., ed. Eugenics, Then and Now (Stroudsburg,: Hutchinson & Ross, 1976)
Baker-Benfield, G. J. The Horrors of the Half-Known Life: Male Attitudes Toward Women and Sexuality in Nineteenth Century America (New York: Harper Colophon, 1976)
Bigelow, Maurice A. "Brief History of the American Eugenics Society," Eugenic News, 31 (1946): 49-51.
Chase, Allen. The Legacy of Malthus: The Social Costs of the New Scientific Racism (New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1977).
Degler, Carl N. In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991)
Haller, Mark H. Eugenics: Hereditarian Attitudes in American Thought (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1963)
Kevles, Daniel J. In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1986)
Kuhl, Stefan. The Nazi Connection. (New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994)
Lifton, Robert. The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide (New York: Basic Books, 1986)
Ludmerer, Kenneth M . Genetics and American Society (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972)
Mehler, Barry. "A History of the American Eugenics Society, 1921 -1940," dissertation, University of Illinois, 1988.
Pernick, Martin S. The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of Defective Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures since 1915 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992)
Pickens, Donald K. Eugenics and the Progressives (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1968)
Rosenberg, Charles E. No Other Gods: On Science and American Social Thought (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976) Shapiro, Thomas M. Population Control Politics: Women Sterilisation and Reproductive Choice (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1985)
Stepan, Nancy. The Idea of Race in Science: Great Britain 1800-1960 (London:: Macmillan, 1982)
“““, The Hour of Eugenics: Race, Gender and Nation in Latin America (Ithaca:: Cornell University Press, 1991 )
Trombley, Stephen. The Right to Reproduce: A History of Coercive Sterilisation (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988)
Weinreich, Max. Hitler's Professors: The Part of Scholarship in Germany's Crimes Against the Jewish People (New York: Yiddish Scientific Institute, 1946)
Weiss, Sheila F. Race Hygiene and National Efficiency: The Eugenics of Wilhelm Schallmayer (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1987)
Reproductive Technology
Corea, G., The Mother Machine (New York: Harper and Row, 1985)
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Instruction on Respect for Human Life in Its Origins and on the Dignity of Procreation (Vatican City: 1987)
De Marco, Don, Biotechnology and the Assault on Parenthood (San Francisco:: Ignatius Press, 1991)
Fletcher, Joseph, Morals and Medicine (Boston: Bacon Press, 1960)
Frank, Diana, and Vogel, Marta, The Baby Makers (New Yolk: Carroll & Graf, 1988)
Howard, Ted, and Rifkin, Jeremy, Who Should Play God? (New York: Dell Publishing, 1987)
Lejeune, Jerome, Ramsey, Paul; and Wright, Gerard, The Question of In Vitro Fertilisation (London: SPUC Educational Trust, 1984)
McLaughlin, Loretta, The Pill John Rock, and the Church (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1982)
Rini, Suzanne M. Beyond Abortion: A Chronicle of Fetal Experimentation (Rockford, IL: Tan Books, 1988)
U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Infertility: Medical and Social Choices (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1988)
Population Control
Aird, John S., Slaughter of the Innocents: Coercive Birth Control in China (Washington: AEI Press, 1990)
Greer, Germaine, Sex and Destiny (New York: Sharper & Row, 1984)
Hartmann, Betsy, Reproductive Rights and Wrongs (New York: Harper & Row, 1987)
Information Project for Africa, Population Control and National Security (Washington, 1991). IPFA has four other studies that have also been used by opponents of population imperialism throughout the developing world.
Fiction
H. G. Wells and Isaac Asimov were eugenicists, and much science fiction follows their lead. It is, therefore, good to know there is some excellent science fiction that challenges eugenics:
Huxley, Aldous, Brave New World (New York, Harper & Row, 1932, 1946)
Lewis, C. S. That Hideous Strength (New York: Macmillan, 1965)
Miller, Walter M., A Canticle for Liebowitz (New York: Bantam Books, 1969)
Percy, Walker, The Thanatos Syndrome (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1987)
Recent Eugenic Theory
Gore, Al, Earth in the Balance (Boston, New York and London: Houghton Mifflin, 1992)
Herrnstein, Richard J. and Murray, Charles, The Bell Curve (New York: Free Press, 1994)
Odom, Guy R., Mothers Leadership and Success (Houston: Polybius Press, 1990)
Rushton, J Philippe, Race, Evolution and Behaviour (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1995)
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