Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 1: Before Darwin
Chapter 1. Who Are the Unfit?
Chapter 2. The Unfit in Biblical Times
Chapter 3. Self-pollution and Declining Health
Chapter 4. Degeneracy Theory: Identifying the Innately Depraved and the Victims of Vicious Upbringing
Chapter 5. Dangerous Classes and Social Degeneracy
Chapter 6. Poor Laws, and the Descent to Degeneracy
Chapter 7. The Perfectibility of Man Confronts Vice and Misery
Chapter 8. Evolutionary Ethics before Darwin
Chapter 9. Hereditary Units and the Pessimism of the Germ Plasm
Part 2: Eugenics Takes the Spotlight
Chapter 10. The Jukes and the Tribe of Ishmael
Chapter 11. A Minor Prophet of Democracy
Chapter 12. Isolating the Unfit through Compulsory Sterilization
Chapter 13. The Emergence of Two Wings of the Eugenics Movement
Chapter 14. Europe's Undesirables Replace the Domestic Unfit
Chapter 15. Eugenics Becomes an International Movement
Part 3: Racism, the Holocaust, and Beyond
Chapter 16. Racism and Human Inequality
Chapter 17. Jews as People, Race, Culture, Religion, and Victims
Chapter 18. The Smoke of Auschwitz
Chapter 19. The Abandonment of Eugenics by Genetics
Chapter 20. The Future of Eugenics
Chapter 21. Dealing with Life's Imperfections
Appendices
Appendix 1: Flow Diagrams and the History of Ideas
Appendix 2: Useful Books on the History of Eugenics
Appendix 3: Bibliography
Index
