Stirpiculture: Science-Guided Human Propagation and the Oneida Community

Between 1869 and 1879, the communal Christian group the Oneida Community undertook a pioneering eugenics experiment called “stirpiculture” in upstate New York. Stirpiculture resulted in the planned conception, birth, and communal rearing of fifty-eight children, bred from selected members of the One...

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Subtitles:Science, pseudo-science, and fiction
Main Author: Prince, Alexandra (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Open Library of Humanities$s2024- [2017]
In: Zygon
Year: 2017, Volume: 52, Issue: 1, Pages: 76-99
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Noyes, John Humphrey 1811-1866 / Eugenics / Oneida Community / Birth control / Reproduction / Experiment
IxTheo Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
AZ New religious movements
CF Christianity and Science
Further subjects:B Oneida Community
B theology and science
B Religion
B Science
B Eugenics
B Genetics
B Worldview
B stirpiculture
B John Humphrey Noyes
B Natural Theology
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