# Eugenics **Domain:** History of Science / Genetics / Reproductive Governance **Doc Type:** Historical and Ethical Concept Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Eugenics** is the historical project of directing human reproduction according to claims about hereditary value. It has included both coercive “negative” programs—such as forced sterilization—and “positive” proposals encouraging reproduction or donor selection among people assigned desirable traits. ## Corpus Context [[wiki/Selected Reproduction|Selected Reproduction]] names a mechanism without erasing this political history. Selection over reproductive inputs can be technically distinguished from cloning, genome editing and developmental engineering while still requiring analysis of coercion, discrimination, disability rights and institutional power. [[wiki/Pantheon S1E5 — Zero Daze|Zero Daze]] is fictional, but its source-specific reproduction and engineered biography expose the ownership problem beneath any program that treats another person's development as an instrument. ## Key Insight **Technical precision must not become historical amnesia.** ## Sources / Provenance - [National Human Genome Research Institute — Eugenics and Scientific Racism](https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/Eugenics-and-Scientific-Racism)