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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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The new (liberal) eugenics [PDF]
, 2013 Despite the Nazi horrors, in 1953 the new eugenics was founded, when Watson and Crick postulated the double helix of DNA as the basis of chemical heredity.
Jeremy Gibbons, Nicolas Wu, Ralf Hinze
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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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Global Bioethics, 1997 Eugenics is bringing misunderstandings linked to eugenism as socio-political movement.Eugenism is the political movement, which estimated that eugenics could ameliorate the qualities of “race”. This idea, that the gene pool of the human species could be ameliorated, is not new and is even a part of the history of our nations. It is on the United States
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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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, 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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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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