Eugenics was everywhere 100 years ago. We still live with its legacy today

Rather than serve as a label for a political and scientific vision of achieving a "perfect" human species, eugenics has become a negative term associated only with evil scientists and Nazi medical experiments. At least this is the argument in Adam Rutherford's popular book Control: Th...

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Published in:America (New York, N.Y. : 1909) N.Y. : 1909), 2024-06, Vol.230 (6), p.1-5
Main Author: Slattery, John P
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Abortion
Genetic engineering
Genocide
Nazi era
Political movements
Racism
Scientists
State laws
Statistical methods
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Summary:Rather than serve as a label for a political and scientific vision of achieving a "perfect" human species, eugenics has become a negative term associated only with evil scientists and Nazi medical experiments. At least this is the argument in Adam Rutherford's popular book Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics (2022), in which the author, a geneticist, argues that eugenics was about control, and that despite all the possibilities of genetic manipulation, the modern insistence on personal and parental choice frees us from allegations of that troubling term. [...]statistics can be warped to tell you pretty much anything you want. In order to achieve such thriving, they value investments in space travel, multi-planet colonization, human-longevity science and-at times-population control through public campaigns as well as easy access to birth control and abortion.
ISSN:0002-7049
1943-3697