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The contemporary history of eugenics began in the late 19th century, when a popular eugenics movement emerged in the United Kingdom, [6] and then spread to many countries, including the United States, Canada, Australia, [7] and most European countries (e.g. Sweden and Germany).
2 lip 2014 · 1. Short history of eugenics. 2. Arguing for “liberal” eugenics. 2.1 Distinguishing “old” and “new” eugenics. 2.2 Using reprogenetic technologies. 3. Criticisms of “liberal” eugenics. 3.1 The comparison problem. 3.2 The promoting injustice problem. 3.3 The inconsistency problem. 3.4 Disability rights critiques. 3.5 Undermining core values.
2 lip 2014 · Eugenicists had two-fold aims: to encourage people of good health to reproduce together to create good births (what is known as “positive” eugenics), and to end certain diseases and disabilities by discouraging or preventing others from reproducing (what is known as “negative” eugenics).
1 lut 2008 · This article examines the collective beliefs and thinking within various eras in the hope of providing lessons to inform future behavior. The eugenics movement is an informative, recent example.
9 maj 2013 · The book under review, The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics, offers a state-of-art survey of current thinking and research on eugenics, with the claim that the history of eugenics has much to teach us about the relationship between scientific research, technology and human ethical decision making.
12 kwi 2018 · Eugenics (literally “good birth”) was a term invented by the Victorian statistician Francis Galton in 1883 to define the science of breeding a better race. At the heart of eugenics has been the sustaining by scientifically based measures of physical and psychological fitness over generations.
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.
