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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.
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.
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...
The history of eugenics is the study of development and advocacy of ideas related to eugenics around the world. Early eugenic ideas were discussed in Ancient Greece and Rome. The height of the modern eugenics movement came in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
4 mar 2023 · Eugenics is a product of racist and colonial mindsets. Racial categorisations themselves were a colonial construct that were designed to separate and put people into a hierarchy. The top of the hierarchy were the White European colonial powers.
24 wrz 2010 · In the past and the present, eugenics speaks to questions of race, class, gender and sex, evolution, governance, nationalism, disability, and the social implications of science.
2 lip 2014 · Past eugenic programs relied on views of race, intelligence, and genetics that were, from our current perspective, “hopelessly wrong” (Agar 2004: 7), while reprogenetic technologies are grounded on purportedly sound scientific theories and evidence.
