Encyc

Encyc houses over 100 concepts relevant to the history of eugenics and its continued implications in contemporary life. These entries represent in-depth explorations of key concepts for understanding eugenics.

Aboriginal and Indigenous Peoples
Michael Billinger
Alcoholism and drug use
Paula Larsson
Archives and institutions
Mary Horodyski
Assimilation
Karen Stote
Bioethical appeals to eugenics
Tiffany Campbell
Bioethics
Gregor Wolbring
Birth control
Molly Ladd-Taylor
Childhood innocence
Joanne Faulkner
Colonialism
Karen Stote
Conservationism
Michael Kohlman
Criminality
Amy Samson
Degeneracy
Michael Billinger
Dehumanization: psychological aspects
David Livingstone Smith
Deinstitutionalization
Erika Dyck
Developmental disability
Dick Sobsey
Disability rights
Joshua St. Pierre
Disability, models of
Gregor Wolbring
Down Syndrome
Michael Berube
Education
Erna Kurbegovic
Education as redress
Jonathan Chernoguz
Educational testing
Michelle Hawks
Environmentalism
Douglas Wahlsten
Epilepsy
Frank W. Stahnisch
Ethnicity and race
Michael Billinger
Eugenic family studies
Robert A. Wilson
Eugenic traits
Robert A. Wilson
Eugenics
Robert A. Wilson
Eugenics as wrongful
Robert A. Wilson
Eugenics: positive vs negative
Robert A. Wilson
Family planning
Caroline Lyster
Farming and animal breeding
Sheila Rae Gibbons
Feeble-mindedness
Wendy Kline
Feminism
Esther Rosario
Fitter family contests
Molly Ladd-Taylor
Gender
Caroline Lyster
Genealogy
Leslie Baker
Genetic counseling
Gregor Wolbring
Genetics
James Tabery
Genocide
Karen Stote
Guidance clinics
Amy Samson
Hereditary disease
Sarah Malanowski
Heredity
Michael Billinger
Human enhancement
Gregor Wolbring
Human experimentation
Frank W. Stahnisch
Human nature
Chris Haufe
Huntington's disease
Alice Wexler
Immigration
Jacalyn Ambler
Indian--race-based definition
Karen Stote
Informed consent
Erika Dyck
Institutionalization
Erika Dyck
Intellectual disability
Licia Carlson
Intelligence and IQ testing
Aida Roige
KEY CONCEPTS
Robert A. Wilson
Kant on eugenics and human nature
Alan McLuckie
Marriage
Alexandra Minna Stern
Masturbation
Paula Larsson
Medicalization
Gregor Wolbring
Mental deficiency: idiot, imbecile, and moron
Wendy Kline
Miscegenation
Michael Billinger
Motherhood
Molly Ladd-Taylor
Natural and artificial selection
Douglas Wahlsten
Natural kinds
Matthew H. Slater
Nature vs nurture
James Tabery
Nazi euthanasia
Paul Weindling
Nazi sterilization
Paul Weindling
Newgenics
Caroline Lyster
Nordicism
Michael Kohlman
Normalcy and subnormalcy
Gregor Wolbring
Parenting and newgenics
Caroline Lyster
Parenting of children with disabilities
Dick Sobsey
Parenting with intellectual disabilities
David McConnell
Pauperism
Caroline Lyster
Person
Gregor Wolbring
Physician assisted suicide
Caroline Lyster
Political science and race
Dexter Fergie
Popular culture
Colette Leung
Population control
Alexandra Stern
Prenatal testing
Douglas Wahlsten
Project Prevention
Samantha Balzer
Propaganda
Colette Leung
Psychiatric classification
Steeves Demazeux
Psychiatry and mental health
Frank W. Stahnisch
Psychology
Robert A. Wilson
Public health
Lindsey Grubbs
Race and racialism
Michael Billinger
Race betterment
Erna Kurbegovic
Race suicide
Adam Hochman
Racial hygiene
Frank W. Stahnisch
Racial hygiene and Nazism
Frank Stahnisch
Racial segregation
Paula Larsson
Racism
Michael Billinger
Reproductive rights
Erika Dyck
Reproductive technologies
Caroline Lyster
Residential schools
Faun Rice
Roles of science in eugenics
Robert A. Wilson
Schools for the Deaf and Deaf Identity
Bartlomiej Lenart
Science and values
Matthew J. Barker
Selecting for disability
Clarissa Becerra
Sexual segregation
Leslie Baker
Sexuality
Alexandra Minna Stern
Social Darwinism
Erna Kurbegovic
Sociobiology
Robert A. Wilson
Sorts of people
Robert A. Wilson
Special education
Jason Ellis
Speech-language pathology
Joshua St. Pierre
Standpoint theory
Joshua St. Pierre
Sterilization
Wendy Kline
Sterilization compensation
Paul Weindling
Stolen generations
Joanne Faulkner
Subhumanization
Licia Carlson
Today and Tomorrow: To-day and To-morrow book series
Michael Kohlman
Training schools for the feeble-minded
Katrina Jirik
Trans
Aleta Gruenewald
Transhumanism and radical enhancement
Mark Walker
Tuberculosis
Maureen Lux
Twin Studies
Douglas Wahlsten & Frank W. Stahnisch
Ugly Laws
Susan M. Schweik and Robert A. Wilson
Unfit, the
Cameron A.J. Ellis
Violence and disability
Dick Sobsey
War
Frank W. Stahnisch
Women's suffrage
Sheila Rae Gibbons