Victoria Nourse reviews a study on a historic US misuse of biology, the case of Buck v. Bell.doi:10.1038/530418aNourseVictoriaNatureNourse, V. (2016). History of science: When eugenics became law. Nature, 530(7591), 418-418. doi:10.1038/530418a...
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eugenics – a term coined by Francis Galton in 1883 to refer to the idea of improving the human stock through encouraging and discouraging specific kinds of human matings – and the explosion of eugenics into a worldwide movement promoted by cutting edge scientific theories of the time in the...
Under Gregory, the journal published editorials on social issues every week, not just occasionally, and he culled the vast list of leader writers to a hand-picked few. He was not afraid to embrace new ideas; unfortunately, theories of eugenics — then fashionable, now recognized as ...
Eugenics has been science's toxic brand since the end of World War II. The point was driven home yet again recently when Toby Young, appointee to the UK's newly established Office of Students, was denounced in the House of Commons for having written favo
Eugenics was originally about forging a certain kind of relationship between science and the state. When Francis Galtoncoined the termin the 1880s, he wanted to turn science into a vehicle to consolidate the state's emerging role as not merely keeper of the peace but promoter ofhuman welfare. ...
Too Soon to Write the "History" of Eugenics? 来自 lifeissues.net 喜欢 0 阅读量: 14 作者: HelenAlvare 摘要: Eugenics (Greek for "good birth") involves not only end of life decision-making, but decisions about who should be conceived, or even who should be allowed to live after ...
Coming from a Greek word meaning “good in birth,” the term eugenics refers to a controversial area ofgenetic sciencebased on the belief that the human species can be improved by encouraging only people or groups with “desirable” traits to reproduce, while discouraging or even preventing repro...
Eugenics and Education: Implications of Ideology, Memory, and History for Education in the United States By Eugenics has been variously described "as an ideal, as a doctrine, as a science (applied human genetics), as a set of practices (ranging from birth control to euthanasia), and as a ...
When this has inevitably proven difficult, the technologies themselves dictate what and how 'enhancement' comes about. Eugenics treats the human in terms of populations – as a species, but also in abstract categories such as nation and race. I follow the establishment of eugenics from the ...