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Peer reviewedBarker, David – Oxford Review of Education, 1983
Eugenists in Edwardian Great Britain believed that society was in imminent danger because degenerate individuals were outbreeding normal people. Four strategies to prevent the unfit from reproducing--regulation, birth control, sterilization, and segregation--are discussed as well as the political and social climate in which eugenics developed. (IS)
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Contraception, Foreign Countries, Identification
