Deviancy, Dependency, and Disability: The Forgotten History of Eugenics and Mass Incarceration [PDF]
, 2015 Three widely discussed explanations of the punitive carceral state are racism, harsh drug laws, and prosecutorial overreach. These three narratives, however, only partially explain how our correctional system expanded to its current overcrowded state ...
Riseby, Emil, Svensson, Alexander
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A climate‐sensitive tropical urbanism under extreme heat†
Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, EarlyView.Tropical urban dwellers face twin climate challenges that impinge on their quality of life: climate overheating and the urban heat island (UHI). The latter superimposed on the former to lead to high levels of thermal discomfort, carbon and energy consequences.
Rohinton Emmanuel
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AI Authoritarianism: Towards an Analytical Framework
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.Short Abstract This Intervention offers a call for investigating the deepening alignment of artificial intelligence and authoritarian politics. The paper highlights three key features of AI that inflect the workings and logics of authoritarianism: (selective) inhumanisation, the cult of intelligence and scaling. We argue that AI is not simply extending,
Thomas Dekeyser +2 more
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Between Germanic and Latin eugenics: Portugal, 1930-1960
História, Ciências, Saúde: ManguinhosThis article assesses critically the participation of Portuguese eugenicists in “Latin eugenics” and traces the continuities and discontinuities with respect to this model.
Richard Mark Cleminson
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Odvrácená tvář otce egyptské archeologie William Matthew Flinders Petrie a eugenická věda // The Dark Side of the Father of Egyptian Archaeology William Matthew Flinders Petrie and Eugenic Science [PDF]
Pražské Egyptologické Studie, 2016 The text aims to bring attention of the Czech readers to Petrie's contributions to the eugenics movement in Great Britain. It describes his close association with Francis Galton and his resulting pronounced views on eugenics and shows how Petrie's ...
Kamila Tomášková
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Interstellar Migration, the Population ‘Problem’ and the Climate Emergency
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Anna Hartnell
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A Review of Research Aims for Historical Anatomical Skeletal Collections in the United States
American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 189, Issue 4, April 2026.ABSTRACT Objectives Many osteological methods used by biological anthropologists today were initially developed using historical anatomical skeletal collections such as the Hamann‐Todd and Terry Collections. However, these collections were amassed through state legislation that permitted the dissection and curation of unclaimed individuals.
Allyson M. Simon +2 more
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On the concept of eugenics: preliminaries to a critical appraisal
Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 1999 This paper's main issue is linked to what can be foreseen as the increasing capability of medical genetics to modify the genetic composition of the human species through direct interventions in the human genome for medical and non-medical purposes, i.e.,
Neri Demetrio
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BMC Infectious DiseasesObjective Neonatal sepsis, a severe infectious disease associated with high mortality rates, is characterized by metabolic disturbances that play a crucial role in its progression.
Xiangwen Tu, Junkun Chen, Wen Liu
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Comparative Arguments and Ethical Analysis: Selective Abortion and Eugenics
Revista Filosofía UISThis article aims to ethically evaluate selective abortion and eugenics, as well as to analyze the practical feasibility of comparing both terms to legitimate, or not, the prohibition of this form of interruption of pregnancy.
Tomás Hernández Mora
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