title: Eugenics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
author: Philippa Levine
description: <br /><strong>Philippa Levine</strong> is the Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities and the Co-Director of the Program in British Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the co-editor of <em>The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics</em> and she has published extensively on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and British Empire history, as well as on science, sexuality, and medicine.<br />
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  # Applied Eugenics
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Paul Popenoe
  
  
  This page formatted 2007 Blackmask Online.
  
  
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  * [PREFACE.](appu_split_2.html#1_0_2)
  
  
  * [INTRODUCTION.](appu_split_3.html#1_0_3)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER I. NATURE OR NURTURE?](appu_split_4.html#1_0_4)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER II. MODIFICATION OF THE GERM-PLASM](appu_split_5.html#1_0_5)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER III. DIFFERENCES AMONG MEN](appu_split_6.html#1_0_6)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER IV. THE INHERITANCE OF MENTAL CAPACITIES](appu_split_7.html#1_0_7)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [CHAPTER V. THE LAWS OF HEREDITY](appu_split_8.html#1_0_8)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER VI. NATURAL SELECTION](appu_split_9.html#1_0_9)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER VII. ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF THE EUGENICS
  
  
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  * [CHAPTER VIII. DESIRABILITY OF RESTRICTIVE EUGENICS](appu_split_11.html#1_0_11)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [CHAPTER IX. THE DYSGENIC CLASSES](appu_split_12.html#1_0_12)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER X. METHODS OF RESTRICTION](appu_split_13.html#1_0_13)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER XI. THE IMPROVEMENT OF SEXUAL SELECTION]