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The Eugenics Survey of Vermont was a survey that gathered biological, familial, and social information of Vermonters in order to further eugenic policies in the state. [1] The survey existed from 1925-1936 and resulted in the sterilization of at least 250 Vermonters, most of them women. [ 2 ]
Eugenics, the set of beliefs and practices which aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population, [1] [2] played a significant role in the history and culture of the United States from the late 19th century into the mid-20th century. [3]
The study of eugenics flourished in Vermont during the first half of the twentieth century, and the Eugenics Survey of Vermont became the first privately funded research project at UVM. [5] Bailey served on the Survey's Advisory Committee, and aided the effort by negotiating for and administering the sponsors' funding. [5]
The Vermont encyclopedia Publisher: UPNE, 2003. ISBN 1-58465-086-9; Gallagher, Nancy L. Breeding Better Vermonters: the Eugenics Project in the Green Mountain State. Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1999. Howe, Paul Sturtevant.
The idea of a eugenics registry was first raised by John Harvey Kellogg during the First National Race Betterment Conference in 1914. The registry was established after the Second National Race Betterment Conference in San Francisco in 1915 in cooperation of Race Betterment Foundation and the Eugenics Record Office. The purpose of the registry ...
Defending the Master Race: Conservation, Eugenics, and the Legacy of Madison Grant. Univ. of Vermont Press. ISBN 978-1-58465-715-6. Edwin Black, War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race, (New York / London: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003)
The goal of the "science" of eugenics was to improve the human race by eliminating what the movement's supporters considered hereditary disorders or flaws through selective breeding and social engineering. The eugenics movement proved popular in the United States, with Indiana enacting the nation's first eugenics-based sterilization law in 1907 ...
Essays in Eugenics (1909) Heredity in Relation to Eugenics (1911) Mankind at the Crossroads (1923) Daedalus; or, Science and the Future (1924) La raza cósmica (1925) Marriage and Morals (1929) The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection (1930) Man, the Unknown (1935) After Us (1936) Eugenics manifesto (1939) New Bottles for New Wine (1950) The ...