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Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, 1912 IV. Heredity and Sex. William Ernest Castle, Professor of Zoology, Harvard University. V. Inheritance in the Higher Plants. VI. The Application of Biological Principles to Plant Breeding. Edward Murray East, Assistant Professor of Experimental Plant Morphology, Harvard University. VII.
Castle, W. E. +4 more
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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History of Eugenics in Otorhinolaryngology: Ernst Rüdin and the International Eugenics Network
International Archives of OtorhinolaryngologyIntroduction 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
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article connects cultural taste to capitalist mechanisms of redistribution through the concept of political economy of taste. Building on Bourdieusian scholarship on recognition struggles and drawing on Mike Savage and Nancy Fraser, it examines how public performances of taste reshape representations of working‐class culture and how these
Simone Varriale
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Nietzsche, Evolution and Eugenics: A Consideration of a Debate in China
Cuestiones de FilosofíaNietzsche, evolution and eugenics have been the subject of intense debate in academic circles for some time. This article attempts to clarify a debate that has taken place in China and, on this basis, to reconsider the following question: Should ...
Han Wangwei (韩王韦)
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Caste criminalisation in South India and permanent migration to Fiji, 1903–1927
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Does the official criminalisation of a group lead to permanent out‐migration? In the early 20th century, British officials in south India designated multiple castes as inherently criminal under the Criminal Tribes Act (CTA). The CTA required police registration and could force entire groups into special settlements.
Alexander Persaud
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Toward a Politics of (In)Fertility: Reproductive Debility in Africa
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sub‐Saharan Africa has some of the highest estimated rates of infertility or involuntary childlessness in the world, leading epidemiologists to refer to parts of the region as the “infertility belt.” The medicalization of infertility and the situating of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) as the treatment for infertility have siphoned ...
Tessa Moll
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Shaping Future Children, Sex Selection, and “Normal” Human Capacities
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT If we think that parents have an obligation to have a healthy child then we need to know what counts as healthy, when male and female children are born with very different capacities. If we give up on the idea that our obligations to use technologies of genetic selection are discharged once we try to secure the birth of a healthy child, as ...
Robert Sparrow
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