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• How to Create the Perfect Baby: By Means of the Art or Science Generally Known as Stirpiculture, or Prenatal Culture and Influence in the Development of a More Perfect Race (Quakertown, PA: Philosophical Pub. Co., c1950), by R. Swinburne Clymer (multiple formats at Google)

• The Trend of the Race: A Study of Present Tendencies in the Biological Development of Civilized Mankind (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1921), by Samuel J. Holmes
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Mongrel Virginians: The Win Tribe (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins Co., 1926), by Arthur H. Estabrook and Ivan E. McDougle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness, by Henry Herbert Goddard (illustrated HTML at York)
• The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness (New York: Macmillan, 1916), by Henry Herbert Goddard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Degeneration (4th edition, trans. from the second German ed.; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1895), by Max Simon Nordau (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Degeneration (fifth edition, trans. from the second German ed.; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1895), by Max Simon Nordau (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Race Decadence: An Examination of the Causes of Racial Degeneracy in the United States (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1922), by William S. Sadler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Revolt Against Civilization: The Menace of the Under Man (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1922), by Lothrop Stoddard
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Tendencies Toward Race Degeneracy (reprinted from the New York Medical Journal by US Senator Townsend; Washington: GPO, 1912), by John Harvey Kellogg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• War and the Breed: The Relation of War to the Downfall of Nations (Boston: The Beacon Press, c1915), by David Starr Jordan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Blood of the Nation: A Study of the Decay of Races Through the Survival of the Unfit (Boston: American Unitarian Association, 1902), by David Starr Jordan (multiple formats at Google)
• The Blood of the Nation: A Study of the Decay of Races Through the Survival of the Unfit (Boston: American Unitarian Association, 1906), by David Starr Jordan (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad (Gutenberg text)
• The Heart of Darkness (as originally published in 3 parts in Blackwood's, 1899), by Joseph Conrad (page images at conradfirst.net)

• Neurobiology of Huntington's Disease: Applications to Drug Discovery (Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2011), ed. by Donald C. Lo and Robert E. Hughes (illustrated HTML at NIH)

• Neurobiology of Huntington's Disease: Applications to Drug Discovery (Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2011), ed. by Donald C. Lo and Robert E. Hughes (illustrated HTML at NIH)

• The New Genetics (Bethesda, MD: National Institutes of Health, 2006) (illustrated HTML and PDF at NIH)
• Mapping Our Genes: The Genome Projects, How Big, How Fast? (OTA-BA-373; Washington: GPO, 1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF at unt.edu

• Human Gene Therapy: A Background Paper (1984), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Your Genes, Your Choices: Exploring the Issues Raised by Genetic Research (c1999), by Catherine Baker (illustrated HTML and PDF at aaas.org)

• Legal Conundrums in Our Brave New World (Hamlyn Lectures, #54; London: Sweet and Maxwell, 2004), by Helena Kennedy (PDF in the UK)

• Negotiating Bioethics: The Governance of UNESCO's Bioethics Programme (London and New York: Routledge, c2013), by Adèle Langlois
  • multiple formats with commentary at Taylor and Francis
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN

• Your Genes, Your Choices: Exploring the Issues Raised by Genetic Research (c1999), by Catherine Baker (illustrated HTML and PDF at aaas.org)

• American Journal of Human Genetics (partial serial archives)
• Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics (partial serial archives)
• Annals of Eugenics (partial serial archives)

• Genetic Psychology Monographs (partial serial archives)

• Balkan Journal of Medical Genetics (some older content might not be online in full; 1998-) (partial serial archives)
• BMC Medical Genetics (2000-) (full serial archives)
• American Journal of Human Genetics (partial serial archives)
• International Journal of Molecular Medicine (partial serial archives)

• Your Genes, Your Choices: Exploring the Issues Raised by Genetic Research (c1999), by Catherine Baker (illustrated HTML and PDF at aaas.org)

• Primer on Molecular Genetics (1992), by U. S. Department of Energy Human Genome Program, contrib. by Denise Casey, Charles Cantor, and Sylvia Spengler (PDF at ornl.gov)

• A Species in Denial (originally published 2003; revised online edition ca. 2009), by Jeremy Griffith, contrib. by Charles Birch (HTML and PDF with commentary at humancondition.com)
• Homo Schizo (2 volumes), by Alfred De Grazia (PDF files at grazian-archive.com)
• Mental Development in the Child and the Race (New York: Macmillan, 1906), by James Mark Baldwin (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Beyond the Human Condition (originally published 1991; online edition ca. 2012), by Jeremy Griffith, contrib. by Tim Macartney-Snape (HTML and PDF with commentary at humancondition.com)
• Free: The End of the Human Condition (originally published 1988; online edition first published 2003), by Jeremy Griffith (HTML and PDF with commentary at humancondition.com)

• The Chromosomes in Man, Sex and Somatic (Memoirs of the University of California v9 #1; 1929), by Herbert M. Evans and Olive Swezy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Genetic Tests and Health Insurance: Results of a Survey (1992), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Genetic Counseling and Cystic Fibrosis Carrier Screening: Results of a Survey (1992), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Genetic Monitoring and Screening in the Workplace (1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• To Know Ourselves: The U.S. Department of Energy and the Human Genome Project (1996), by U. S. Department of Energy Human Genome Program, contrib. by Douglas Vaughan (HTML and PDF at ornl.gov)

• Frequencies of Hemoglobin Variants: Thalassemia, the Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency, G6PD Variants, and Ovalocytosis in Human Populations (originaly published 1985; this electronic edition 2012), by Frank B. Livingstone (PDF with commentary at sicklecellanemia.org)

• Genes and Disease (electronic edition), by National Center for Biotechnology Information (U.S.) (illustrated HTML at NIH)
• The Genetical Factor in Endemic Goiter (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #428, 1932), by Charles Benedict Davenport (page images at HathiTrust)

• Genetic Monitoring and Screening in the Workplace (1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• The Children of Atomic Bomb Survivors: A Genetic Study (1991), ed. by James V. Neel and William J. Schull (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Genetic Monitoring and Screening in the Workplace (1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

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