Prologue: Eugenics, Reproduction, and Human Rights Daniel J. Kevles Interdisciplinary Fellow, NYU Law School Prof. of History Emeritus, Yale University.

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Prologue: Eugenics, Reproduction, and Human Rights Daniel J. Kevles Interdisciplinary Fellow, NYU Law School Prof. of History Emeritus, Yale University

Francis Galton

Charles B. Davenport, Eugenicist

An ERO Board Meeting: Fisher, Morgan, Bell

Eugenics Exhibit Kansas Free Fair, 1929

Eugenics and Marriage Chart, Kansas Free Fair, 1929

The Menace of Immigrants

The Coming of Supermen

Capper Medal

Winner, Large Family, Fitter Family Family Contest, Texas

American Eugenics Society Exhibit, Sesquicentennial Exposition, 1926

Degeneration Counter, 1926

Carrie and Emma Buck, 1924

Buck v. Bell, 1927

Buck v. Bell, Holmes

Sterilization Rates, US

J.B.S. Haldane

Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe with Louise Brown

Louise Brown, with her parents, John and Leslie Brown, 2003

Dolly the Sheep World’s First Adult Clone

Jane Howland, “Recipe of Me”

TR on “Degenerates”