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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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Enthymema, 2023 This article examines Levi’s treatment of eugenics in “I sintetici” and “Procacciatori d’affari” from Vizio di forma. The study builds upon Francesco Cassata’s analysis, which established that Levi held complex and conflicting views on the topic.
Eleonora Lima
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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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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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Genotypic and phenotypic characterization of rare globin variants in Northern Guangxi, China
Frontiers in ImmunologyObjectiveThe aim of this study is to examine the relationship between hematological parameters, hemoglobin electrophoresis findings, and phenotypic characteristics in individuals carrying rare thalassemia gene variants in Northern Guangxi, China ...
Wei-Jia Yang +7 more
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State-Sponsored Injustice: The Case of Eugenic Sterilization [PDF]
, 2019 In analytic political philosophy, it is common to view state-sponsored injustice as the work of a corporate agent. But as I argue, structural injustice theory provides grounds for reassessing the agential approach, producing new insights into state ...
Page, Jennifer M.
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Clinical efficacy of thalidomide for various genotypes of beta thalassemia
BMC Medical GenomicsObjective The objective of this study was to investigate the therapeutic efficacy of thalidomide across various genotype presentations of β-thalassemia so as to facilitate the early screening of thalidomide-sensitive thalassemia cases and to understand ...
Wei-jia Yang +7 more
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