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Eugenics and euthanasia – then and now

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2009
A main objective of this article is to give a presentation of the widespread acceptance of eugenics in the twentieth century and to show how the German euthanasia programmes were embedded in eugenic ideology. A second objective is to challenge the notion
Lars Grue
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PREACHING EUGENICS: RELIGIOUS LEADERS AND THE AMERICAN EUGENICS MOVEMENT

, 2004
Introduction -- Ch. 1. Fervent charity -- Ch. 2. Certifying eugenic purity in the churches -- Ch. 3. Protestant promoters and Jewish eugenics -- Ch. 4. Eugenicists discover Jesus -- Ch. 5. Sterilization, birth control, and the Catholic confrontation
Rosen, Christine
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Discussions on the “Physical Degeneration of the Proletariat” and the Soviet Eugenics Project of the 1920s

Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2018
This article considers the background and features of the formation of the Soviet model of mass sports and physical culture development in connection with the theory and practice of Soviet eugenicists of the 1920s.
Ilya Victorovich Sidorchuk
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Agrarian Eugenics

, 1995
review of SEX, RACE, AND SCIENCE: EUGENICS IN THE DEEP SOUTH, by Edward J ...
Reilly, Philip
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Resisting Psychopathologies of Dominance and Authoritarianism: From Trumpian Dystopia to Better Tomorrows

Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The world and mental health nursing face several crises that, in different ways, reflect problems of dominance. Global politics are afflicted with a growth of support for right‐wing ideologies associated with domineering authoritarian leaders.
Michael Haslam, Mick McKeown
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THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF THE HISTORY OF EUGENICS

, 2010
Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: eugenics and the modern world / Philippa Levine and Alison Bashford -- Pt. I. Transnational themes in the history of eugenics -- 1. The Darwinian context: evolution and inheritance / Diane B.

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(Re)Turning to Black feminist consciousness: Deconstructing the politics of reproductive racism in Britain

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Using ethnographic vignettes from my doctoral research, this article contextualizes and analyses Britain's Black maternal health crisis— a crisis of reproductive racism— through a Black feminist lens. The inequities Black mothers face has a strong Black (and) feminist history of being analyzed in relation to the politics of anti‐Black racism ...
Princess Banda
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The Role of Vitamin D Metabolism-Related Genes in Recurrent Pregnancy Loss and Their Immune Microenvironmental Changes

Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare
Jiangmei He, Hongmei Liu, Jingru Ji Department of Eugenics and Genetics, First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Jiangmei He, Email acc0351@163.comPurpose: The importance of ...
He J, Liu H, Ji J
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SEGREGATION'S SCIENCE: EUGENICS AND SOCIETY IN VIRGINIA

, 2008
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "You are your brother's keeper!" -- 1. "The sacrifice of a race": Virginia's proto-eugenicists survey humanity -- 2. "Rearing the human thoroughbred": Progressive Era eugenics in Virginia -- 3. "Defending the thin red
Dorr, Gregory Michael
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We Are Our Memory: A Flexible Framework for Quantifying the Demographic Imprints of the Past

Population and Development Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Populations have demographic connections to the past: people who were exposed to the past may still be alive or may at least have living kin. Denton and Spencer and Alburez‐Gutierrez have recently articulated the concept of “demographic memory” to refer to the way in which the memory of single events lingers in populations through their age or
Hampton Gaddy
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