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172868 https://hdl.handle.net/10776/8241 2014-11-22 eng Gur-Arie, Rachel Turriziani Colonna, Federica Arizona State University. School of Life Sciences. Center for Biology and Society. Embryo Project Encyclopedia. Arizona Board of Regents open access http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ The American Eugenics Society (AES) was established in the US by Madison Grant, Harry H. Laughlin, Henry Crampton, Irving Fisher, and Henry F. Osborn in 1926 to promote eugenics education programs for the US public. The AES described eugenics as the study of improving the genetic composition of humans through controlled reproduction of different races and classes of people. The AES aided smaller eugenic efforts such as the Galton Society in New York, New York, and the Race Betterment Foundation in Battle Creek, Michigan, and it influenced eugenic policy set by the US Supreme Court in cases including Buck v. Bell (1927) and Skinner v. Oklahoma (1942). The AES was renamed the Society for the Study of Social Biology in 1972. Organizations Eugenics Heredity, Human Heredity Involuntary Sterilization Eugenics--United States--History Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 Laughlin, Harry Hamilton, 1880-1943 American Eugenics Society Society for the Study of Social Biology Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 Laughlin, Harry Hamilton, 1880-1943 Perkins, Henry F. International Congress of Eugenics Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966 Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 American Eugenics Society (1926-1972)