The Oxford handbook of the history of eugenics / edited by Alison Bashford, Philippa Levine.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Eugenics and the modern world / Philippa Levine and Alison Bashford -- Part One: Transnational themes in the history of eugenics -- The Darwinian context : Evolution and inheritance / Diane B. Paul and James Moore -- Anthropology, colonialism, and eugenics / Philippa Levine -- Race, science, and eugenics in the twentieth century / Marius Turda -- Eugenics and the science of genetics / Nils Roll-Hansen -- Fertility control: Eugenics, neo-Malthusianism, and feminism / Susanne Klausen and Alison Bashford -- Disability, psychiatry, and eugenics / Mathew Thomson -- Eugenics and the state: Policy-making in comparative perspective / Veronique Mottier -- Internationalism, cosmopolitanism, and eugenics / Alison Bashford -- Gender and sexuality: A global tour and compass / Alexandra Minna Stern -- Eugenics and genocide / A. Dirk Moses and Dan Stone -- Part Two: National/colonial formations -- Eugenics in Britain: The view from the metropole / Lucy Bland and Lesley Hall -- 12. South Asia's eugenic past / Sarah Hodges -- Eugenics in Australia and New Zealand: Laboratories of racial science / Stephen Garton -- Eugenics in China and Hong Kong: Nationalism and colonialism, 1890s-1940s / Yuehtsen Juliette Chung -- Eugenics in South Africa: Paradoxes in the place of race? / Saul Dubow -- Eugenics in colonial Kenya / Chloe Campbell -- Eugenics in post-colonial Southeast Asia / Sunil S. Amrith -- German eugenics and the wider world: Beyond the racial state / Paul Weindling -- Eugenics in France and the colonies / Richard S. Fogarty and Michael A. Osborne -- Eugenics in the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies / Hans Pols -- The Scandinavian states: Reformed eugenics applied / Mattias Tyden -- The first-wave eugenic revolution in southern Europe: Science sans frontiers / Maria Sophia Quine -- Eugenics in eastern Europe, 1870s-1945 / Maria Bucur -- Eugenics in Russia and the Soviet Union / Nikolai Krementsov -- Eugenics in Japan: Sanguinous repair / Jennifer Robertson -- Eugenics in interwar Iran / Cyrus Schayegh -- Eugenics and the Jews / Raphael Falk -- Eugenics policy and practice in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Mexico / Patience A. Schell -- The path of eugenics in Brazil: Dilemmas of miscegenation / Gilberto Hochman, Nisia Trindade Lima, and Marcos Chor Maio -- Eugenics in the United States / Wendy Kline -- Eugenics in Canada: A chequered history, 1850s - 1990s / Carolyn Strange and Jennifer A. Stephen -- Epilogue: Where did eugenics go? / Alison Bashford.