In Eugenic Control and its Relationship to the Science of Life and Reproduction (1931), a pamphlet based on a lecture he had delivered, John H. Bell details the breadth of the forced sterilization program he oversees at the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded, near Lynchburg, and discusses its merits.
In this excerpt from The Biological Relationship of Eugenics to the Development of the Human Race, published in 1929, John Hendren Bell justifies the eugenics movement, outlines its history in the West, and discusses what he sees as its potential to improve the “stock” of the human race.
In this excerpt from Eugenical Sterilization (1929), a pamphlet based on a lecture he had delivered, John Hendren Bell argues for the ethics of sterilization based on the “science” of eugenics.
