Eugenic sterilization and the Bell curve. 1995

R P Vance
Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Winston-Salem.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D007360 Intelligence The ability to learn and to deal with new situations and to deal effectively with tasks involving abstractions.
D005053 Eugenics The attempt to improve the PHENOTYPES of future generations of the human population by fostering the reproduction of those with favorable phenotypes and GENOTYPES and hampering or preventing BREEDING by those with "undesirable" phenotypes and genotypes. The concept is largely discredited. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th ed) Negative Eugenics,Positive Eugenics,Eugenics, Negative,Eugenics, Positive
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D013244 Sterilization, Involuntary Interference of a person's reproductive ability without the consent of the person or guardian. Compulsory Sterilization,Forced Sterilization,Involuntary Sterilization,Compulsory Sterilizations,Forced Sterilizations,Involuntary Sterilizations,Sterilization, Compulsory,Sterilization, Forced,Sterilizations, Compulsory,Sterilizations, Forced,Sterilizations, Involuntary
D016011 Normal Distribution Continuous frequency distribution of infinite range. Its properties are as follows: 1, continuous, symmetrical distribution with both tails extending to infinity; 2, arithmetic mean, mode, and median identical; and 3, shape completely determined by the mean and standard deviation. Gaussian Distribution,Distribution, Gaussian,Distribution, Normal,Distributions, Normal,Normal Distributions

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