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Laypeople's Views on the Narrative Identity and Societal Treatment of Genetically Modified People

open access: yesBioethics, Volume 40, Issue 5, Page 472-481, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Genome editing in human embryos could raise new ethical issues by changing future people's narrative and numerical identity. Most philosophers agree that some genetic modifications would have larger effects on identity than others, but they disagree on what criteria might explain these differences and have not supported their claims ...
Derek So, Yann Joly, Robert Sladek
wiley   +1 more source

MENDEL'S THEATRE: HEREDITY, EUGENICS, AND EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN DRAMA

open access: yes, 2009
Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Predecessors: Isben, Strindberg, Shaw, Brieux, and heredity 2. From peas to people: theatre and the American eugenics movement -- 3.
Wolff, Tamsen
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AI For Whom? Participation, Power and Educational Pathways in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT For four decades, discourses on digital divides have shaped engagement with societal transformation processes in the context of digitality. With the rapid development of AI technologies, these disparities are manifesting in an emerging “AI Divide” that not only reproduces existing social inequalities but potentially amplifies them.
Daniel Autenrieth   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From 'beastly philosophy' to medical genetics: eugenics in Russia and the Soviet Union.

open access: yes, 2011
This essay offers an overview of the three distinct periods in the development of Russian eugenics: Imperial (1900-1917), Bolshevik (1917-1929), and Stalinist (1930-1939).
Krementsov, Nikolai
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Why We Should Unfold Dreams: Public Geographies of Disabled Futuring

open access: yesThe Geographical Journal, Volume 192, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT 101 million people in the EU live with disabilities (EU 2022). Yet, disabled voices rarely are considered in endeavours of futuring. Even more, amid rising socio‐political polarisation—fuelled by the knowledge crisis, populism and identity‐based divides—ableist norms are being reinforced, further marginalising and erasing disabled perspectives
Jacqueline Kowalski   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Law as a technology of exclusion: the legal construction of racialized and gendered work relations through the case study of international labour law in the first half of the twentieth century

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 359-383, June 2026.
Abstract This article explores the role of labour law in processes of racialization and gendering of work. It argues that labour law not only protects certain forms of work (law as a protective mechanism), but also systematically excludes other forms of work, especially those performed by racialized and gendered individuals (law as a technology of ...
JULIETA LOBATO
wiley   +1 more source

The present status of eugenical sterilization in the United States

open access: yes, 1923
"Reprinted from Eugenics in race and state, Vol. II, 1923" --Caption.Title from PDF caption (viewed on October 10, 2017).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program.

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Chapter 6: Background to the Eugenics Movement and Influences on Friedrich Hayek” in Robert Leeson, editor. Hayek: A Collaborative Biography Part X: Eugenics, Cultural Evolution, and the Fatal Conceit. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The first part of this chapter describes eugenics, the eugenics movement and its leaders in the United States, Great Britain and Germany through the late 1930s when Friedrich Hayek was formulating his theories.
Engs, Ruth Clifford
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AI Authoritarianism: Towards an Analytical Framework

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.
Short Abstract This Intervention offers a call for investigating the deepening alignment of artificial intelligence and authoritarian politics. The paper highlights three key features of AI that inflect the workings and logics of authoritarianism: (selective) inhumanisation, the cult of intelligence and scaling. We argue that AI is not simply extending,
Thomas Dekeyser   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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