'War Against the Weak': Here Comes the Master Race
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/05/books/review/05KEVLEST.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By DANIEL J. KEVLES
Published: October 5, 2003
Eugenics -- the idea of manipulating human genes to the end of
improving individuals, groups or entire populations -- is strongly
associated with the Nazi programs of sterilization, euthanasia and
genocide. But during the first third of the 20th century, eugenics
movements flourished in many nations, including the United States. In
the last few years, newspaper articles have called attention to -- and
prompted official apologies for -- state-mandated sterilizations done
legally to rid society of its alleged human trash, the "weak" in the
title of Edwin Black's new book, notably in Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Oregon and California.
Edwin Black
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