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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...
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.
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.
The Eugenics Movement in Retrospect. Despite warnings by biologists and geneticists, eminent individuals and venerable institutions helped promote a false theory that led to sterilizations and genocide. By Rob DeSalle.
2 mar 2024 · Several defendants at the Nuremberg Trials after WWII specifically cited inspiration from the USA as part of the defense for their eugenic activities. What relevance does the tawdry role of scientists in the rise of eugenics a century ago have for us today?
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.
