What is Eugenics?
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"What is Eugenics?" is a book by Leonard Darwin that explains and advocates the early 20th-century social and scientific movement aimed at improving human populations through controlled breeding.
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book
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non-fiction book → |
| advocates |
controlled human breeding
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improvement of human populations → |
| author |
Leonard Darwin
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| countryOfOrigin |
United Kingdom
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| describes |
early 20th-century eugenics movement
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| explains |
concepts of negative eugenics
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concepts of positive eugenics → |
| fieldOfStudy |
genetics (early 20th-century understanding)
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social biology → social policy → |
| genre |
eugenics literature
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scientific popularization → |
| hasForm |
prose
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| hasMoralStance |
supports selective breeding for human traits
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| hasPerspective |
pro-eugenics
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| historicalContext |
early 20th-century social reform movements
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| intendedAudience |
general educated public
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| language |
English
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| mainSubject |
eugenics
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| publicationCentury |
20th century
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| relatedTo |
British eugenics movement
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Eugenics Education Society → |
| workTitle |
What is Eugenics?
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Leonard Darwin
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What is Eugenics?
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