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== Further reading ==
Blom, Philipp (2008). The Vertigo Years: Change and Culture in the West, 1900–1914. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. pp. 335–336. ISBN 9780771016301.
Carlson, Elof Axel (2001). The Unfit: A History of a Bad Idea. Cold Spring Harbor, New York: Cold Spring Harbor Press. ISBN 9780879695873.
Engs, Ruth C. (2005). The Eugenics Movement: An Encyclopedia. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing. ISBN 9780313327919.
Farrall, Lyndsay (1985). The Origins and Growth of the English eugenics movement, 1865–1925. Garland Publishing. ISBN 9780824058104.
Joseph, Jay (June 2005). "The 1942 'euthanasia' debate in the American Journal of Psychiatry" (PDF). History of Psychiatry. 16 (62 Pt. 2): 171–179. doi:10.1177/0957154x05047004. PMID 16013119. S2CID 35728753.
Gillette, Aaron (2007). The Nature–Nurture Debate in the Twentieth Century. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230108455.
Holmes, Samuel J. (1924). A Bibliography of Eugenics. University of California Press.
Largent, Mark (2008). Breeding Contempt: The History of Coerced Sterilization in the United States. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9780813541839.
Leon, Sharon M. (2013). An Image of God: The Catholic Struggle with Eugenics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Ordover, Nancy (2003). American Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816635597.
Paul, Diane (2006). Darwin, Social Darwinism, and Eugenics (PDF). Cambridge University Press.
Stepan, Nancy Leys (1991). "The Hour of Eugenics": Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
"Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race". USHMM.org. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 2004. Archived from the original on 4 September 2013.
Wilson, Robert A. (2017). The Eugenic Mind Project. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262037204.
Wyndham, Diana (2003). Eugenics in Australia: Striving for national fitness. London: Galton Institute. ISBN 9780950406671.

== External links ==

Historical resources
Eugenics Archive – Historical Material on the Eugenics Movement (funded by the Human Genome Project)
University of Virginia Historical Collections: Eugenics Archived 2008-05-17 at the Wayback Machine
"Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race" (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibit)
"Controlling Heredity: The American Eugenics Crusade, 1870–1940" Archived 2011-08-16 at the Wayback Machine, exhibit at the University of Missouri Libraries
"Eugenics" – National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature Scope Note 28, features overview of eugenics history and annotated bibliography of historical literature
1907 Indiana Eugenics Law Archived 2011-09-23 at the Wayback Machine
The Fertility of the Unfit, W.A. Chappel, 1903
Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders, NZ Committee of inquiry, 1925