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“In Women’s Hands”

open access: yesKvinder, Køn & Forskning, 2023
Eugenics had popular appeal and expressions in early 20th-century Denmark. This article tells two stories of what eugenics looked like ‘in the hands’ of bourgeois Danish women as they promoted ‘racial hygiene’ through cultural production.
Victoria E. Pihl Sørensen
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Genethics and eugenics [PDF]

open access: yesNature Biotechnology, 1996
The Ethics of Human Gene Therapy by Leroy Walter and Julie Gage Palmer. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996, pp.195,(hbk).
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe 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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The Rhetorical Biopower of Eugenics: Understanding the Influence of British Eugenics on the Nazi Program

open access: yesConatus - Journal of Philosophy, 2019
The relationship between the British and Nazi eugenics movements has been underexamined, largely because of the more obvious ties between the American and Nazi programs and the lack of a state-sponsored program in Britain.
Amanda M. Caleb
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Eugenic Ideology and Historical Osmosis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Issues of inequity in education are plentiful, but too little attention has been paid to the origins of this inequity which is more tangible than has been acknowledged.
Winfield, Ann G.
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Caste criminalisation in South India and permanent migration to Fiji, 1903–1927

open access: yesAsia‐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
wiley   +1 more source

“Yet the Problem Remains”: Why Genetic Determinism Still Haunts Biomedical Research

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT After the horrors of the Holocaust and its connections to eugenics were revealed to the world, many post‐war population geneticists sought to establish rhetorical distance from the Nazi's state‐led campaigns, without abandoning their belief that actively shaping the population's genetics would produce a prosperous society.
Christopher R. Donohue, Ian A. Myles
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Nietzsche, Evolution and Eugenics: A Consideration of a Debate in China

open access: yesCuestiones de Filosofía
Nietzsche, 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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EUGENICS IN GERMANY [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Heredity, 1922
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The tensions between parenthood rights and child's interests: Israeli court analysis of parents with disabilities

open access: yesFamily Relations, EarlyView.
Abstract Background The Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities establishes the fundamental right to parenthood, yet these rights are frequently violated. Parents with disabilities face disproportionate involvement with child protective services and higher rates of custody loss.
Michal Segal, Ari Reich, Ayelet Gur
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