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- Eugenics | Center for Genetics and Society
Photo from Belly of the Beast, used by permission Yesterday, California became the third state in the nation to provide reparations to survivors of coerced sterilization under 20 th century eugenics laws, and the first state to both notify and compensate those sterilized involuntarily in state women’s prisons
- Eugenics today: where eugenic sterilisation continues now
Once the rest of the world recognised this, eugenics was done – not simply as a social movement with state support, but as an endorsable idea guiding social policy But this view doesn’t capture what eugenics feels like from where I have stood for the past 20 years For most of the past two decades, I have lived in the Canadian province
- Future Past: Disability, Eugenics, and Brave New Worlds
The Consequences of Misremembering Eugenics [Watch a video recording of Panel 2 here ] Building on the morning panel, conversation will turn to the underlying social and cultural dynamics that motivate eugenic ideas and practices of the past and present, and to the resistance to them
- Disability Rights, Triage and Countering Eugenics in a Time of Pandemic
Justifying eugenics as necessary because of "cold equations" is still eugenics George Annas is a Distinguished Professor of Health Law, Ethics Human Rights at Boston University, and co-founder of Global Lawyers Physicians, an NGO dedicated to promoting health and human rights
- Confronting Racist Eugenics in the Pandemic
Eugenics, of course, is not merely about skin color, or disability as usually defined Class is behind some of it, as Eugene Robinson noted acidly: “If you work in a meatpacking plant, by order of President Trump, you are officially considered less essential than the steak you’re cutting up ” Ageism certainly comes into it too
- What’s the difference between genetic engineering and eugenics?
However, the research is still very young, and there are major ethical questions attached to editing human DNA that the emergence of CRISPR makes even more pressing: Wouldn’t editing out inheritable traits from the human population simply amount to eugenics
- Maga’s era of ‘soft eugenics’: let the weak get sick, help the clever . . .
Eugenics has since played out in varying, always tragic ways Attempted genocides and forced sterilization are first to mind, though the 20th century brought about the concept of soft eugenics: non-coercive methods of reducing certain conditions through individual choice and medical advice
- The ‘Science’ of Eugenics: America’s Moral Detour
Many early scientific journals focusing on heredity in plants and lower organisms were published by eugenicists and included “scientific” articles on human eugenics-promoting studies of heredity When eugenics fell out of favor after World War II, most references to eugenics were removed from textbooks and subsequent editions of relevant
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