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20 lip 2022 · Over the past 30 years, scholars from various academic disciplines have offered a historically informed account of eugenics. They have determined the ebb and flow of the eugenic movements across the world and forced them out of their carapace.
16 maj 2024 · Eugenics was everywhere a century ago. Dozens of countries and a similar number of U.S. states passed eugenics laws allowing forced sterilizations. In 1924, Virginia passed a sweeping...
26 sty 2022 · In Control, Geneticist Adam Rutherford argues that eugenics isn’t just a horrific mistake from the past, but an ongoing threat and that we must stay alert to its dangers.
4 mar 2023 · Eugenics, or “good breeding”, is about who is worthy to reproduce. Eugenicists sought to apply techniques used in animal breeding to human populations, choosing the “strongest, smartest, and fittest” to advance the human race.
2 mar 2024 · From the early 20th century until well after World War II, the Journal amplified attention to eugenics and provided important support among medical professionals for the U.S. eugenics movement.
Eugenics, held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York between 22 and 28 September 1921, was unprecedented in terms of its global reach and the number of individuals and organizations involved.
20 cze 2024 · Articles in discussion will explore the entanglement of eugenics in statistics; the role of eugenics in the founding of Stanford University; and researchers’ quest for genes that are associated with high intelligence, among other topics.
