Results 51 to 60 of about 65,035 (244)

TEACHING EUGENICS [PDF]

open access: yesReligious Education, 1914
n ...
openaire   +1 more source

Science Educators and Researchers Must Uphold the Human Rights of Trans, Nonbinary, and Intersex Persons

open access: yesScience Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Trans, nonbinary, and intersex persons are—and have always been—an integral part of humankind. However, these communities are under attack. We live in a time of growing state repression and the normalization of political violence against trans, nonbinary, and intersex persons throughout much of the world, and we have a responsibility to ...
Quentin C. Sedlacek   +30 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Everything is a signal’: speaking circuits and noisy signs in the making of language‐oriented AI « Tout est signal » : circuits parlants et signes bruyants dans la création de l'IA orientée langage

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are often presumed to be capable of revealing unmediated truths about the world, including the truths language might hold, echoing the long‐standing assertion that language's primary function is to directly translate reality.
Beth M. Semel
wiley   +1 more source

Session 1: Eugenics Narrative and Reproductive Engineering [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Proceedings of the Pittsburgh Workshop in History and Philosophy of Biology, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, March 23-24 2001 Session 1: Eugenics Narrative and Reproductive ...
Diane, Paul, Lennox, James, Tabery, Jim
core  

Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
wiley   +1 more source

The New Eugenics: Black Hyper-Incarceration and Human Abatement

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2016
In the early twentieth century, the eugenics movement exercised considerable influence over domestic US public policy. Positive eugenics encouraged the reproduction of “fit” human specimens while negative eugenics attempted to reduce the reproduction of “
James C. Oleson
doaj   +1 more source

The art of being human : a project for general philosophy of science [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Throughout the medieval and modern periods, in various sacred and secular guises, the unification of all forms of knowledge under the rubric of ‘science’ has been taken as the prerogative of humanity as a species.
A Cochrane   +29 more
core   +1 more source

Working‐Class Muscles? Co‐Operative Gyms in Interwar Britain

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract The Health & Strength League's network of co‐operative gymnasiums constituted one of interwar Britain's most significant yet overlooked physical culture institutions, affiliating over 800 gyms across Britain and Ireland by 1939. Drawing on Health & Strength magazine's editorial content and reader contributions, this article argues that these ...
CONOR HEFFERNAN
wiley   +1 more source

History of Eugenics in Otorhinolaryngology: Ernst Rüdin and the International Eugenics Network

open access: yesInternational Archives of Otorhinolaryngology
Introduction The early geneticist and psychiatrist Ernst Rüdin (1874–1952) became one of the key figures in the eugenics movement and in the German health system of the Nazi era.
Beato Suwa
doaj   +1 more source

Eugenics between Darwin’s Εra and the Holocaust

open access: yesConatus - Journal of Philosophy, 2019
Heredity and reproduction have always been matters of concern. Eugenics is a story that began well before the Holocaust, but the Holocaust completely changed the way eugenics was perceived at that time.
Dimitra Chousou   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy