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Eugenics is concerned with the current direction of human evolution. Troy Duster (1990) in his book "Backdoor to Eugenics" defines eugenics as "the organic betterment of the race through wise application of the laws of heredity." The word Eugenics was first put to use in 1883 by Francis Galton in his "Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development". The word originates from the Greek word eugenes meaning "...good in stock, hereditarily endowed with noble qualities". The first edition of the Encyclopedia of Bioethics' entry for eugenics states that the meaning of the term Eugenics has differed over time: "...a science that investigates methods to ameliorate the genetic composition of the human race, a program to foster such betterment; a social movement; and in its perverted form, a pseudo-scientific retreat for bigots and racists" (Ludmerer 1978, p. 457). Highlighting its disintegration, Kelves says that by 1935 "...eugenics had become `hopelessly perverted' into a......

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