Eugenetika iku  sawijining pasinaon lan praktèk mgenani pembiakan selèktif marang manungsa, kanthi angkah tujuan ngundhakaké (njaga kwalitas) spésies. Sajeroning sajarah lan makna sing luwih jembar, eugenetika bisa uga duwé makna pasinaon kanggo ngundhakaké kwalitas genetika manungsa.  Eugenetika polpulèr ing wiwitan abad kaping-20, nanging banjur suda popularitasé amarga digandhèngaké marang Nazi Jerman.  Wiwit jaman paska perang masarakat lan para komunitas èlmuwan nggandhèngaké eugenetika marang tindakan sawenang-wenang Nazi, kaya déné ngresiki ras kanthi peksa (‘’racialhygiene’’),  pacoban marang manungsa (‘’human experimentation’’) lan pambesmèn (‘’extermination’’) kelompok masarakat.

Rujukan

Sumber 
  
Histories of eugenics (academic accounts)
 Elof Axel Carlson, The Unfit: A History of a Bad Idea (Cold Spring Harbor, New York: Cold Spring Harbor Press, 2001). ISBN 0-87969-587-0 
 Daniel Kevles, In the name of eugenics: Genetics and the uses of human heredity (New York: Knopf, 1985). 
 Dieter Kuntz, ed., Deadly medicine: creating the master race (Washington, DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2004). online exhibit
 Ruth C. Engs, The Eugenics Movement: An Encyclopedia. (Westport CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005). ISBN 0-313-32791-2.
 John Glad, Future Human Evolution: Eugenics in the Twenty-First Century. (Hermitage Publishers, 2008). ISBN 1-55779-154-6.Whatwemaybe.org

Histories of hereditarian thought
 Elazar Barkan, The retreat of scientific racism: changing concepts of race in Britain and the United States between the world wars (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992). 
 Stephen Jay Gould, The mismeasure of man (New York: Norton, 1981). 
 Ewen & Ewen, Typecasting: On the Arts and Sciences of Human Inequality (New York, Seven Stories Press, 2006).
Criticisms of eugenics, historical and modern
 Edwin Black, War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race (Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003). Waragainsttheweak.com ISBN 1-56858-258-7
 Dinesh D'Souza, The End of Racism (Free Press, 1995) ISBN 0-02-908102-5
 Galton, David, Eugenics: The Future of Human Life in the 21st Century (Abacus, 2002) ISBN 0-349-11377-7
 Robert L. Hayman, Presumptions of justice: Law, politics, and the mentally retarded parent. Harvard Law Review 1990, 103, 1202-71. (p. 1209)
 Joseph, J. (2004). The Gene Illusion: Genetic Research in Psychiatry and Psychology Under the Microscope.  New York: Algora. (2003 United Kingdom Edition by PCCS Books)
 Joseph, J. (2005). The 1942 “Euthanasia” Debate in the American Journal of Psychiatry. History of Psychiatry, 16, 171-179.  
 Joseph, J. (2006). The Missing Gene: Psychiatry, Heredity, and the Fruitless Search for Genes.  New York: Algora.
 H. L. Kaye, The social meaning of modern biology 1987, New Haven, CT Yale University Press. (p. 46)
 Tom Shakespeare, "Back to the Future? New Genetics and Disabled People", Critical Social Policy 46:22-35 (1995)
 Wahlsten, D. (1997). Leilani Muir versus the Philosopher King: eugenics on trial in Alberta. Genetica 99: 185-198.
 Tom Shakespeare, Genetic Politics: from Eugenics to Genome, with Anne Kerr (New Clarion Press, 2002).
 Nancy Ordover, American Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism (Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press, 2003). ISBN 0-8166-3559-5
 Gina Maranto, "Quest for Perfection: The Drive to Breed Better Human Beings" Diane Publishing Co. (June 1996) ISBN 0-7881-9431-3
 Andrea Smith, Conquest: Sexual Violence and the American Indian Genocide (Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2005).

Pranala njaba

Sumber sajarah 
 Eugenics Archive - Historical Material on the Eugenics Movement (funded by the Human Genome Project)
 University of Virginia Historical Collections: Eugenics 
 "Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race" (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibit)
 "Eugenics" - National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature Scope Note 28, features overview of eugenics history and annotated bibliography of historical literature
 1907 Indiana Eugenics Law
 Sex selection and eugenics

 
Genetika terapan
Bioetik
Évolusi manungsa
Ètika medhis
Rasisme
Téyori sosial