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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.
This article provides a short history of the American and German eugenics programs and concludes with a review of their possible relations to our current practices. It is hoped that this will encourage institutions to include, in master's Ph.D., and M.D. programs in human genetics, lectures, seminars, and journal clubs on the topic of eugenics.
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.
Eugenics, which aspires to create humans that are fit for survival, is a scientific doctrine advocating for more ‘able’ human beings as opposed to those who are feeble. By using eugenics, natural selection is replaced by a new kind of artificial selection determined by man.
4 paź 2016 · This article provides a short history of the American and German eugenics programs and concludes with a review of their possible relations to our current practices. It is hoped that this will encourage institutions to include, in master's Ph.D., and M.D. programs in human genetics, lectures, seminars, and journal clubs on the topic of eugenics.
9 lut 2022 · Eugenics was a scientific idea that science itself has discredited: Rutherford calls it a “busted flush, a pseudoscience that cannot deliver on its promise”.
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.
