Sentences with word «eugenics»

The use of standardized test scores and the construct of the achievement gap can be tied to the eugenics movement and its efforts to maintain racial hierarchies.

Students investigate the complicated history of the Progressive Era, focusing on the influence of the Eugenics Movement on public policy and social discourse.

Students examine how the Supreme Court's landmark decision regarding forced sterilization was influenced by the American Eugenics Movement.

In addition to using IWitness to introduce the American Eugenics Movement unit, I have used it as a culminating project for a labor and immigration unit.

Normalcy — the social - political construct concerning the state of being «normal» with respect to the body, intelligence, race, or gender — is a eugenics concept, like special ed.

During my first summer I had the honor of working with testimony to create an introductory lesson to a unit on Eugenics which I created after attending a seminar «Race and Membership in the United States: The Eugenics Movement.»

Regarding KIPP in particular, Cambridge College professor and blogger Jim Horn, who admits to having never been inside a KIPP school, nonetheless has referred to KIPP as a «New Age eugenics intervention at best,» destroying students» cultures, and a «concentration camp» at worst.

In the 19th and 20th centuries, white supremacy spawned fever dreams of «scientific racism,» yielding the junk science of eugenics to justify discriminatory agendas rooted in claims of racial superiority.

The film is based upon Melissa London Hilfers spec script, adapted from Adam Cohen's book Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck.

Sundance Institute / Sloan Lab Fellowship ($ 15,000) Bell (U.S.A.) / Darcy Brislin (Co-Writer) and Dyana Winkler (Co-Writer) At a pivotal point in history, hearing society began a golden age of communication with the advent of the telephone, while deaf society plummeted into a dark age with the eradication of sign language and spread of eugenics.

Code 46 features a lovely setting, a futuristic world fraught with the perils of eugenics.

Biologically, that would mean something like eugenics, probably.

This BURIED without a TRACE ---------------------- 20th — 30th — 40th — 50th and now 60th anniversary ---------------- of the GLOBALISM, RED CHINA and EUGENICS ------------------------------------- «very unfriendly» -------------------------------------------------- yet unfolding.

for example, a gay eugenics.

to the exceptionally weird (What are your opinions on Eugenics?).

evidenced by anti-miscegenation laws and eugenics, multiracial children and.

«On a scientific level, we get past ADHD the same way we got past phrenology and eugenics; we demand that the theories that are being expounded be based in fact and verified by research.

Will this development yield greater developments in medicine or a new age of eugenics?

The Citizens» Council on Health Care released a report in 2009 that raises concerns about the extension of eugenics into...

Watson Promotes Preventative Eugenics - DNA pioneer advocates genetic testing for couples before they have children

Germany, still wrestling with dark memories of Nazi - era eugenics and human experimentation, is cautious about genetics and stem cell research.

From a certain perspective, we're already on the road to practicing a «progressive eugenics» not a million miles away from what was imagined historically.

Daniel Kevles, an emeritus historian at Yale, offered a tutorial on the eugenics movement in the early 20th century, noting that although it reached its genocidal zenith in Nazi Germany, it also had intellectual support in the United States on both ends of the political spectrum.

Multimedia Resources include educational websites, videos, and apps, which cover basic heredity, genetic disorders, eugenics, the discovery of the structure of DNA, the human genome, cancer, neurobiology, plant genetics, RNA interference, epigenetics, and bioinformatics.

The Eugenics Archive provides materials that stimulate independent, critical thinking about the parallels between eugenics and modern genetics research.

The Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement Internet site was conceived in 1995, soon after the DNALC launched its first primitive home page.

Yet people worried about eugenics and designer babies — or that the project would fail to deliver at all.

Some bioethicists fear a move to eugenics aided by patent awarded to 23andMe, but others see no imminent danger and firm dismisses concerns

Satoshi Kanazawa is an evolutionary psychologist who gained attention (I'm not sure fame is the right word) for various outlandish claims, including the assertion that low intelligence is the basis for poverty and disease in places like Africa, drawing critics who suggested that he was trying to lend legitimacy to the faux science of eugenics.

Once a fashionable field of enquiry, the study of eugenics remains associated with some of the worst excesses of the 20th century, from forced sterilisation to genocide.

Yet as Princeton University economist Thomas Leonard documents in his book Illiberal Reformers (Princeton University Press, 2016) and former New York Times editor Adam Cohen reminds us in his book Imbeciles (Penguin, 2016), eugenics fever swept America in the early 20th century, culminating in the 1927 Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell, in which the justices legalized sterilization of «undesirable» citizens.

A few decades later Francis Galton advocated marriage between the fittest individuals («What nature does blindly, slowly, and ruthlessly man may do providently, quickly and kindly»), followed by a number of prominent socialists such as Sidney and Beatrice Webb, George Bernard Shaw, Havelock Ellis and H. G. Wells, who openly championed eugenics as a tool of social engineering.

And eugenics and Nazi race laws are also blamed (incorrectly) on him.

We think of eugenics and forced sterilization as a right - wing Nazi program implemented in 1930s Germany.

Britain does not allow any form of gene therapy that alters the genetic material of future generations because of the potential for eugenics or other abuses.

Science of the Unfit «Ever since the late Sir Francis Galton gave us his science of Eugenics, which in its most literal sense means «good breeding,» the scientific students of mankind, the directors of insane asylums and hospitals, and criminologists the world over, have been compiling statistics to show not only the danger of permitting the marriage of criminals, lunatics, and the physically unfit, but the effect upon mankind.

Full article is available at www.ScientificAmerican.com/jun2011 / eugenics

Exploring the roots of medical genetics, Comfort illuminates neglected connections between eugenics and medicine during the first half of the 20th century.

It's 1921 and the American Museum of Natural History in New York City is packed with visitors eager to learn about the hot science of eugenics.

The apartheid system in South Africa, the eugenics policies of Nazi Germany, and our own history of slavery and segregation come to mind.

«Non-religious political movements, such as fascism and communism, and quasi-scientific movements, such as eugenics, have also done great harm.»

Mattei contends that France is sanctioning eugenics by allowing systematic prenatal genetic testing and the screening of donors.

Scientists in the 1920s and 1930s preached (even in Nature) the need for «negative eugenics», including the compulsory sterilisation of slum dwellers for being «morons» or having too many children, or of dock labourers and miners for being Irish.

This line of thought led to the eugenics movement and eugenic engineering ideas of the early 20th century.

Included in this were the rise of European superiority and the trappings of eugenics and racial purity.

Unlike the biblically based racists, the biologists raised issues of population control, euthanasia and eugenics.

While arguing that state - mandated eugenics efforts were unlikely to arise again, he noted that other forces, such as commercial incentives and consumer demand for genetic enhancement, could push germline gene editing into dangerous territories.

The Holocaust did brand eugenics with the bad name it so richly deserves.

In lurid terms, he tries to paint the history of eugenics as an all - powerful conspiracy worthy of its own episode of The X-Files.

Although some of its originators were interested in behavior, many were steeped in the eugenics tradition.