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Eugenics became a subject of debate in the European medical field, while certain states adopted eugenic laws. Nazi Germany took eugenic ideology to the extreme, practicing a “negative” eugenics in the form of forced sterilization and the euthanasia of “undesirable” individuals.
15 lis 2017 · Eugenics is the now‑discredited practice of “improving” the human race and reducing the impact of hereditary disease by mating people with desirable traits.
24 wrz 2010 · Eugenics is a powerful tool used both for imperial control and for nationalist anti-imperial challenges from the Baltic to the Balkans. This article deals with the role of race theories and eugenics that has become a subject of scholarly engagement.
7 lip 2022 · Despite adoption and adaptation of eugenic practices, the region’s accounts of eugenics seem unassignable to the global circulation of eugenics developed in Western Europe and the United States. The article highlights the ways in which eugenics has been purposefully integrated into the understandings of race and nation formation across CEE.
24 wrz 2010 · The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics covers the nineteenth century to the post-World War II era and dispels for uninitiated readers the automatic and apparently exclusive link between eugenics and the Holocaust. It provides a world history of eugenics.
20 lip 2022 · Instead, the eugenicists preferred measures that they believed to be more practice and immediate in their effect such as sterilization, segregation, and legislation against immigration and miscegenation. Some may today be surprised by the effective spread of eugenics across the political spectrum.
Despite adoption and adaptation of eugenic practices, the region’s accounts of eugenics seem unassignable to the global circulation of eugenics developed in Western Europe and the United States. The article highlights the ways in which eugenics has been purposefully integrated into the understandings of race and nation formation across CEE.
