Spring 1924 was the high water mark for the Eugenics Record Office, a Cold Spring Harbor research facility whose staff hoped to use selective breeding to engineer the human race. The work is now ...

The event will bring together students, academics, and researchers to discuss the historical and contemporary impacts of eugenics on higher education institutions and efforts to address the harm of ...

As Dagmar Herzog, Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, NY, USA, skilfully shows in her latest book, The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and ...

Japanese prefectural authorities start accepting compensation applications on Friday from people who were forced to undergo sterilization surgery under the now-defunct Eugenic Protection Law.

But scholar Anita Say Chan illustrates how the eugenics movement in the 19th and 20th centuries amassed and analyzed data in order to justify social hierarchies. She draws a line from that past to our ...

In “Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future,” Anita Say Chan compares today’s tech industry to the 19th and 20th century eugenics movement, which tried to build a ...