eugenics movement

GPTKB entity

Statements (51)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:political_office
gptkb:political_party
gptkbp:aimsTo improve genetic quality of human population
gptkbp:associatedWith gptkb:biological_determinism
social Darwinism
gptkbp:criticizedFor gptkb:racism
human rights abuses
ableism
gptkbp:declinedAfter gptkb:World_War_II
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label eugenics movement
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Nazi_racial_policy
immigration law
marriage laws
forced sterilization laws
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Charles_Darwin
gptkbp:legacy subject of historical controversy
influenced modern genetics
influenced reproductive rights debates
gptkbp:legislature gptkb:Law_for_the_Prevention_of_Hereditarily_Diseased_Offspring
gptkb:Immigration_Restriction_Act_of_1924
gptkb:Sterilization_Act
gptkbp:notableEvent gptkb:Nuremberg_Trials
gptkb:Buck_v._Bell_(1927)
gptkb:International_Eugenics_Congress
gptkbp:notableFigure gptkb:Alexander_Graham_Bell
gptkb:Karl_Pearson
gptkb:Leonard_Darwin
gptkb:Charles_Davenport
gptkb:Harry_H._Laughlin
gptkb:Madison_Grant
gptkb:Paul_Popenoe
gptkb:Margaret_Sanger
gptkb:Ernst_Rüdin
gptkbp:notableOrganization gptkb:British_Eugenics_Society
gptkb:American_Eugenics_Society
gptkb:Kaiser_Wilhelm_Institute_for_Anthropology,_Human_Heredity,_and_Eugenics
gptkb:Eugenics_Record_Office
gptkbp:opposedBy gptkb:activist
disability rights activists
gptkbp:originatedIn gptkb:United_Kingdom
late 19th century
gptkbp:popularizedBy gptkb:Francis_Galton
gptkbp:relatedTo bioethics
genetic counseling
population control
gptkbp:spreadTo gptkb:Canada
gptkb:Germany
gptkb:United_States
gptkb:Scandinavia
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Society_for_Constructive_Birth_Control_and_Racial_Progress
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5