It was a drastic form of eugenics, a desire to improve the race by eliminating genetic defects. |
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An implicit appeal to eugenics persuades the reader that the innate badness of the suicidal killer can be known just by looking. |
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An example is the notion of eugenics, a painful memory in the history of science. |
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Not only was eugenics said to be good science, it was also supported by Scripture. |
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After the war eugenicists started to use different names because the term eugenics became unacceptable. |
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His enduring fame, or infamy, rests on eugenics, which means, crudely, the selective breeding of humans. |
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A world not only of eugenics, but also of tight government control over all aspects of human reproduction. |
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It is easy to criticise the premarital medical examination on grounds of human rights, control, oppression, and eugenics. |
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How does our habitual practice of everyday eugenics shape our view of the world and of creation? |
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But the origin of eugenics was simply a desire to increase the odds that a child would be born healthy. |
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In the United States in recent years, interest in eugenics has centered around genetic screening. |
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It turns out that spaying or neutering your cat or dog is the same thing as eugenics! |
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He believes the history of eugenics is the history of government out of control, not geneticists. |
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As the explosion in genetic research continued, the temptation of eugenics grew ever more alluring. |
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And as you know eugenics is defined as the science of improving the qualities of the human race. |
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The eugenics movement lobbied fiercely in favour of measures of forced sterilization for entire categories of the population. |
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Just to stop us getting too excited, we were cautioned by stories of eugenics and mutant pigs. |
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After World War I they were less sanguine about progress and more inclined to the hereditarian pessimism of eugenics. |
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He devoted the latter part of his life to eugenics, i.e. improving the physical and mental makeup of the human species by selected parenthood. |
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Although critics insist that eugenics was based on bad science, they often ignore the link to evolution. |
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Clearly, contemporary views of heritability are populist market eugenics in a new form. |
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Shot in North Korea, it features Western actors running purposelessly through a B-movie story about eugenics. |
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There are other activities that are prohibited, those carried out for eugenics in an attempt to create an ideal human. |
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It was predicated on the pseudo-sciences of eugenics and craniology. |
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The most important reason why the harsher negative eugenics program displaced the mild positive one in the 1930s was the coming of the Great Depression. |
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For people such as Fisher, who was a leading figure in the American eugenics movement, the eugenic program of race improvement was the central concern. |
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He hoped that his work would take the field of mental deficiency far beyond the simplicities of mainline eugenics. |
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Passive euthanasia became active euthanasia and active euthanasia became an entire cult of eugenics. |
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That direction converges at the New York Museum of Natural History where dioramas and taxidermy reconfigure notions of exhibition, eugenics and conservation. |
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My claim is that Malthusianism is a more dangerous doctrine than eugenics. |
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All campaigns that claim that this is to talk in terms of eugenics are acting in a very deceitful manner. |
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It is the idea of eugenics cleansing and is a term with which I am not familiar. |
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We've had outrageous amounts offered to fashion models here to donate, for designer family motives, we presume, some form of eugenics. |
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For many others, cloning implied overtones of human immortality or of assembly-line eugenics. |
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Particular stress was laid on the emergence of cultural racism and on the threats that can arise from genetics in the form of creeping eugenics. |
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The most convincing results are of a diagnostic nature and openly raise the problem of eugenics. |
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With the potential for eugenics cleansing, we are creating enormous problems for our society today. |
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The risk of eugenics and the manipulation of the human species is greater than ever. |
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Could the member expand on what area of biotechnology and research deals with eugenics cleansing? |
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With both eugenics and racism we are dealing with political and social constructs and not scientific categories. |
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This provides much scope for ethical dilemmas, and opens the door to the spectre of eugenics. |
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It is not a consequence of family policies and it has nothing to do with eugenics. |
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From the beginning the emphasis in these journals has been mainly on organismic genetics in a wide variety of animals and plants, and in the early years, on eugenics. |
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Watch a montage of his many references, from SS uniforms, to the Third Reich, to eugenics. |
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Racism and eugenics were very popular among Leftists in Hitler's day. |
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In Erlangen, the University keenly promoted the science of eugenics. |
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Therefore, we can at least infer that the people of Saint-Jean-des-Vignes did not have a rigorous eugenics program like Sparta. |
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The serologist argued that racial hygiene should not degenerate into a welfare-oriented eugenics that promoted health without regard to racial origins. |
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The eugenics movement obviously horrifies this film maker and Mr. Peter Cohen communicates that horror most effectively in this interesting and artful documentary. |
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Others argued that the artificial selection of eugenics should amplify natural selection in eliminating weaklings from the Italian population. |
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Crick occasionally expressed his views on eugenics, usually in private letters. |
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For example, Crick advocated a form of positive eugenics in which wealthy parents would be encouraged to have more children. |
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We should not have the misconception that eugenics is a thing of the past, although, in present times, eugenics may express itself in not so obvious ways. |
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Suicide, eugenics and euthanasia are not regulated for under national law. |
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Given the fundamental, high principles and the universal values that we defend, it is our duty to completely rule out the risks of eugenics as well as cloning for reproductive purposes. |
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Those times were the heyday of Jim Crow, eugenics and manifest destiny. |
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This explains the deep-rooted fear of eugenics and why eugenic practices, such as reproductive cloning, are banned in Europe either by European Community law or by national legislation. |
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This laissez faire eugenics will creep up on society as people increasingly look to genetics to relieve-not resolve-problems caused by social situations. |
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The movement advocated selective breeding, compulsory sterilization, and a close alignment of public health with eugenics. |
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The goal was to cure criminality, alcoholism and psychiatric problems through research in eugenics and racial hygiene. |
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Although the opinion and eugenics remains controversial, the decision in the case still stands. |
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These preconceptions were often informed by and agreed with the interwar eugenics discourse. |
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As Cogdell herself acknowledges, providing documentation of this link between streamlining and eugenics proved challenging. |
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He argues that positive eugenics would lower fertility among the genetically disadvantaged. |
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Positive eugenics endorses mentally and physically fit individuals to over-reproduce. |
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He endorses eugenics which, as the history of racism has shown, is the first step towards the neutralization of a community, ethnic group or race, which precedes genocide. |
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After the 1880s, a eugenics movement developed on ideas of biological inheritance, and for scientific justification of their ideas appealed to some concepts of Darwinism. |
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He invented the term eugenics and the phrase nature versus nurture. |
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Marginal symbols indicate such categories as legislation and legal cases, argument from design and Intelligent Design, the age of earth, and social Darwinism and eugenics. |
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I found Plotz's book compulsively readable for the most part, especially when he is telling the tale of the American eugenics movement and Grahams obsession with spermatozoa. |
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Subsequently, tens of thousands of innocent Americans who ran afoul of the pernicious junk science of eugenics were sterilized under color of law. |
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Stephen Wilkinson defines positive and negative eugenics relative to a disease account and a normalcy account, and he defends positive eugenics for enhancements. |
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In 1935 a law was passed allowing abortions for eugenics reasons. |
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Because if you take survival of the fittest as the driving force of evolution, this leaves the field wide open for eugenics, racism, and a dog-eat-dog mentality. |
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Bell was connected with the eugenics movement in the United States. |
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