The Eugenics Record Office thought pseudoscience could make more perfect humans. It led to unspeakable tragedy.
Eugenics fell out of intellectual favor because it became identified with Nazi policies. But it has come out of the shadows ...
During dark times in the Queen City, some community members wore masks to hide their bigotry in the 1920s and 1930s.
NMAHMAI copy Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. Contents Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Ideology, tools, and perspective -- What is eugenics? -- Fear of the "other" -- The ...
The Rockefeller Foundation did support eugenics research in the early 1900s. However, it played no part in founding the World Health Organization. On May 2, 2024, the X (formerly Twitter) account ...
Psychiatry’s system of involuntary commitment is recycling discredited eugenics-era policies—using vague labels and coercive ...
Trump announced within the first ten minutes of the conference that the National Institutes of Health, “to help reach the ...
My wife brought up an interesting paper the other day about how they might soon be able to "fix"/prevent Down Syndrome using CRISPR. To her, this is a travesty. She is a special education teacher and ...
Television viewers are familiar with the “Law and Order” promo: stories “ripped from the headlines.” “No Perfect Mothers” is, in its way, one of these, but the headlines are from 1927. Karen Spears ...
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