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“The Bare Replacement”: Geneticists’ and Bioethicists Support of Eugenics, from after the Second World War to the Human Genome Project [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de História, 2023 Using a combination of archival and secondary sources, this article argues that scientists and bioethicists after the Second World War advocated a wide variety of eugenic practices and strongly supported the development of eugenics, strengthened by ...
Christopher R. Donohue
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Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2022 The Motherhood Protection Act (1996), which corresponds to modern family health in Japan, was enacted based on the Eugenics Protection Law (1948) for the protection of national eugenics.
Yi-Jin Park, Sam-Hun Park
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Colonialism, eugenics and ‘race’ in Central and Eastern Europe
Global Social Challenges Journal, 2023 The legacies of eugenics in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and their connections to global colonialism remain uncharted. Therefore, it is worth pondering over this relationship, which requires a historical perspective and a repositioning of the recent ...
Turda Marius, Balogun Bolaji
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The case of Heinrich Wilhelm Poll (1877-1939): A German-Jewish geneticist, eugenicist, twin researcher, and victim of the Nazis [PDF]
, 2006 This paper uses a reconstruction of the life and career of Heinrich Poll as a window into developments and professional relationships in the biological sciences in Germany in the period from the beginning of the twentieth century to the Nazi seizure of ...
Braund, James, Sutton, Douglas G.
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Rivista di Storia dell'Università di Torino, 2012 Though the connection between eugenics and the Left has been largely investigated, this topic has been insofar quite neglected with regard to the Italian case.
Francesco Cassata
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, 2015 This short paper, written for a wide audience, introduces "science and values" topics as they have arisen in the context of eugenics. The paper especially focuses on the context of 20th century eugenics in western Canada, where eugenic legislation in two
Barker, Matthew J.
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Frontiers in Animal Science, 2023 Animal breeding is a mainstay of our relationship with domesticated species. However, it is sometimes leading to serious health and welfare issues, such as canine brachycephaly or double-muscling phenotype in Belgian Blue cattle. How then can we re-think
Edwin Louis-Maerten
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¿Es posible reclamar un supuesto derecho a ser desgraciados? El “mundo feliz” de la eugenesia
Grafía, 2015 In the discussion about the ethical implications of genetic engineering it is usual to distinguish between negative and positive eugenics. Negative eugenics refers to genetic imperfections correction procedures, which aim to avoid or minimize the ...
Jorge Sierra Merchán
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‘This growing genetic disaster’: obesogenic mothers, the obesity ‘epidemic’ and the persistence of eugenics [PDF]
, 2013 In this era of ever-increasing emphasis on personal responsibility the 'obesity epidemic', officialised in global health warnings, threatens to swamp the West with the consequences of overindulgence.
Cain, Ruth
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Cahiers Droit, Sciences & Technologies, 2019 This paper aims at defining eugenics as an object for the history of science and the history of medicine. To do so, it will first spell out the reasons for which, as suggested by Jean Gayon, the term “eugenics” does not refer to a coherent philosophical ...
Nicola Bertoldi
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