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Eugenics: positive vs negative [PDF]
, 2014 The distinction between positive and negative eugenics is perhaps the best-known distinction that has been made between forms that eugenics takes. Roughly, positive eugenics refers to efforts aimed at increasing desirable traits, while negative eugenics ...
Wilson, Robert A.
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American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Polygenic risk scores (PRS) estimate individuals' genetic risk for developing multifactorial conditions. Recent genome‐wide association studies have enabled development of psychiatric PRS, which hold potential to streamline diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric conditions.
Lauren A. Ginn +11 more
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract To solidify their power over society, totalitarian regimes will usually eliminate any dissent, any perceived threats early on. These threats include not only political enemies but also educated and independent segments of society, such as professional associations.
Michael Hortsch
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Liberal eugenics, coercion and social pressure
Enrahonar: Quaderns de FilosofiaWhen discussing genetic prenatal enhancement, we often encounter objections related to “eugenics.” Those who want to defend prenatal enhancement either try to avoid using the term “eugenics” or talk about “liberal eugenics”, implying that what was wrong
Blanca Rodríguez López
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Racism and Welfare: The Hybridization of Eugenics Movement
Pasado y Memoria, 2018 Human beings millenarian interest in improving their natural attributes culminated at the end of the 19th century with the emergence of ‘eugenics’ as a science that studied the enhancement of human lineage.
Jesús Parra Sáez
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The Hippo pathway in endometrial cancer: a potential therapeutic target?
Frontiers in Oncology, 2023 Endometrial cancer, one of the most prevalent malignant cancers tumors of the female reproductive tract, has been increasing in incidence and mortality rates around the world.
Xinyun Shen +13 more
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, 2014 Genetics and the biological sciences are the two contemporary scientific fields most readily called to mind in thinking about science and eugenics. Yet the history of another discipline, psychology, is enmeshed more intricately with eugenics than are the
Wilson, Robert A.
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Eugenics and the afterlife: Lombroso, Doyle, and the spritualist purification of the race [PDF]
, 2007 No abstract ...
Ferguson, C.
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Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article identifies assistive technologies (ATs) as ‘pre‐technologies’ mediating access to other technologies for disabled subjects (DSs). The motivation is to show that without ATs, DSs cannot be said to have the same level of access to freedom and self‐forming activities as able‐bodied subjects.
Sarel Marais
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