Just as the phrase "the King of Kings" is intended to trump any revisionist project in the religious realm, the very title of this book can be read as an attempt to foreclose any recession of the origin in the domain of the life sciences and their history. The foreclosure can never in...
Etymology and history The word "eugenics" is based on Greek roots meaning "well-born." The Merriam-Webster dictionary provides 1883 as the date of origin for the term. Later, Darwin's son, Leonard, served as the president of the First Congress of Eugenics in 1912 in London. The encyclop...
“Eugenics” comes from the Greek roots for “good” and “origin,” or “good birth” and involves applying principles of genetics and heredity for the purpose of improving the human race. The term eugenics was first coined by Francis Galton in the late 1800’s (Norrgard 2008). ...
Eugenics: Diversity Beware Eugenics is a word derived from the roots of the Greek words meaning “good” and “origin‚” and originated from the author Francis Galton in the year 1869‚ in his book Hereditary Genius (Bouche and Rivard 2014). Eugenics is a form of artificial selection‚...
The publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859 began a scientific revolution that changed many people's... R Moore - 《Bioscience》 被引量: 20发表: 2009年 Human Genetics and Politics as Mutually Beneficial Resources: The Case of the Kaiser...
起始发布年份:1909 出版者:London, Oliver and Boyd. 出版地:England NLM刊名缩写:Eugen Rev 数据库引入:OLDMEDLINE, PMC MeSH词表主题词:Eugenics* 备注:Issues for Apr. 1928-Dec. 1968 called also new ser., v.1-41. Microfilm. v. 1展开▼ ...
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The idea behind eugenics is not new and can be traced back to Plato. The term itself is of more recent origin and has attracted much controversy. While the aims of eugenics might be carried out by a variety of methods, the central idea of distinguishing between desirable and undesirable trai...
Galton foresaw that a better “average quality” would mean a better-informed populace less likely to be swayed by biased electioneering. Democracy would be strengthened. However, he stressed the “actuarial” aspects of the underlying science,...