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The New Eugenics: Selective Breeding in an Era of Reproductive Technologies

, 2017
Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) refers to a broad range of medical procedures aimed at treating infertility, including in vitro fertilization (IVF), intrauterine insemination (IUI), and artificial insemination by donor (AID).
J. Daar
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Eugenics and Involuntary Sterilization: 1907-2015.

Annual review of genomics and human genetics (Print), 2015
In England during the late nineteenth century, intellectuals, especially Francis Galton, called for a variety of eugenic policies aimed at ensuring the health of the human species.
P. Reilly
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Eugenics and So-Called Eugenics

American Journal of Sociology, 1914
The determination of the exact meaning of a word that has only recently been proposed, and which has been explicitly defined by its author, is ordinarily an easy task; easier, that is, than in the case of an old term whose meaning has shifted through ages or through successive languages.
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The Persistence of Eugenics

Human Reproduction & Genetic Ethics, 1999
With the International Genetics Federation congress in Beijing looming, the issue of China's eugenics law is likely to be in the news again. A particularly sensitive issue is the relationship between genetics and eugenics. This article takes a look at the history of the relationship between genetics and eugenics, and in particular at the concept and ...
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Eugenics and the normal body: the role of visual images and intelligence testing in framing the treatment of people with disabilities in the early twentieth century

Normality and Disability, 2017
This article examines how the emergence of a statistical concept of the normal at the end of the nineteenth century led to the development of a theory of eugenics, and examines the cultural pathways by which this theory came to shape both the public ...
Elizabeth Stephens, Peter Cryle
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Eugenics and Ideology

The Historical Journal, 1983
In a recent communication to the Historical Journal, Greta Jones submitted a critique that was largely a commentary on my article ‘Eugenics and progressive thought: a study in ideological affinity’. I am taking the liberty of replying not only because my views have been seriously misrepresented by Dr Jones but also because I believe that she has failed
M, Freeden, G, Jones
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Education and Eugenics

Journal of Educational Sociology, 1931
Eugenics rests on two axioms so simple that a child can understand them. If a people is to survive, it must produce in each year, or each generation, enough children to take the places of those who die during that period. And if it is to avoid deterioration which would also prevent survival, it must encourage childbearing from the part of the ...
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Eugenics in Britain

Social Studies of Science, 1976
part of this century is an important example of the relationship between scientific ideas and the interests and purposes of social groups. The eugenists possessed a social theory, and a set of social policies, which claimed scientific foundation.
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Eugenics

2012
La voce esamina la questione dell'eugenica sotto il profilo storico e teorico ed affronta le questioni bioetiche poste dal risorgere di tendenze eugenetiche nell'ambito dell'attuale ricerca in genetica umana.
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