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The Quiet Progress of the New Eugenics. Ending the Lives of Persons With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities for Reasons of Presumed Poor Quality of Life

Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 2019
This paper considers recent developments in terminating human life affected by intellectual and developmental disability. It brings these developments together under the heading of a progressing eugenics.
Johannes Reinders, Trevor Parmenter
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Eugenics and its evolution in the history of western psychology: A critical archival review

Psychotherapy and Politics International, 2019
Psychother Politics Int. 2019;17:e1495. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppi.1495 wiley Abstract Since its inception Western academic psychology has been influenced by and closely affiliated with eugenics, defined by its originators as the “science of racial ...
Oksana Yakushko
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‘These Pushful Days’: Time and Disability in the Age of Eugenics

Health and History, 2022
:At the turn of the twentieth century, social attitudes toward disability turned sharply negative. An international eugenics movement brought about restrictive immigration laws in the United States and other immigrant nations.
Douglas C. Baynton
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Reflections on the Historiography of American Eugenics: Trends, Fractures, Tensions

Journal of the History of Biology, 2016
D. Paul
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Disabled Upon Arrival: Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability

Rhetoric Review, 2019
Most books dealing with immigration in rhetorical studies emphasize relatively contemporary phenomena in the U.S. Such a focus makes sense because rhetoric remains largely a U.S.-centric field, and the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries ...
Karma R. Chávez
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Glands, Eugenics, and Rejuvenation in Man into Woman

Transgender Studies Quarterly, 2018
This article argues that Lili Elbe has been misrecognized as transsexual, just as Man into Woman (1933) has been misread as a transsexual autobiography.
Kadji Amin
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A Quality of Life Perspective on the New Eugenics

Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 2019
Quality of life is a concept that has had robust development and application in the field of intellectual disability in recent decades. It functions as an apt goal for individuals to enhance their lives, as well as for policy and disability support ...
I. Brown, Roy I. Brown, A. Schippers
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The strongman of eugenics, eugen Sandow

Australian Historical Studies, 2002
Recent debate on the history of eugenics in Australia has focused on the inter‐war years as a time when social reform eugenics came to the fore. The 1902–3 tour of Australasia by international strongman and eugenicist, Eugen Sandow, suggests that many of the characteristics of inter‐war eugenics were present in the earlier period. Sandow, the father of
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Why We Should Defend Gene Editing as Eugenics.

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2018
This paper considers the relevance of the concept of "eugenics,"-a term associated with some of the most egregious crimes of the twentieth century-to the possibility of editing human genomes.
N. Agar
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From state eugenics to private eugenics

Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 1999
Eugenics--or 'the cultivation of a race'--is a concept dating from the latter part of the 19th century. It preceded the new science of genetics by merely 25 years. Negative eugenics stressed especially the exclusion of negative characteristics and was associated with the practice and theory of radical eugenics between the two World Wars.
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