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Back to the future: eugenics--a bibliographic essay.: Public Hist, Vol. 29, No. 3. (2007), pp. 163-175.The following essay is a review of the literature about the American eugenics movement produced by scholars over the last fifty years. The essay provides an explanation for today's renewed interest in the subject and for why the science of eugenics remains relevant to contemporary society. The essay examines the catalyst to re-examine the eugenics movement, the influence of Darwinian thought upon its development, the political and institutional support for its growth, the relationship between eugenics, sterilization, and sex, and how the twentieth-cent ury promises of the science of better breeding was a precursor to the twenty-first-c entury promise of genetic engineering.D Cullen

Source: Public Hist, Vol. 29, No. 3. (2007), pp. 163-175.
Locating the voices of the sterilized.: Public Hist, Vol. 29, No. 3. (2007), pp. 131-144.Schola rs have been studying eugenics and sterilization for years, but only recently have some begun to examine these issues from the point of view of those sterilized. This is in large part because so few records containing the voices of the sterilized exist or are accessible to scholars. This essay examines my own effort to recover the voices of women sterilized in the post-baby boom United States from the "bottom up" and includes my own experience researching and writing Fit to Be Tied?: Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1960-1984. It represents the beginning of a discussion about locating and using sources containing the voices of the sterilized and working with the limitations inherent to them.RM Kluchin

Source: Public Hist, Vol. 29, No. 3. (2007), pp. 131-144.
Biotypology, endocrinology, and sterilization: the practice of eugenics in the treatment of Argentinian women during the 1930s.: Bull Hist Med, Vol. 81, No. 4. (2007), pp. 793-822.This article looks at medical approaches to women's fertility in Argentina in the 1930s and explores the ways in which eugenics encouraged the reproduction of the fit and attempted to avoid the reproduction of the unfit. The analysis concentrates on three main aspects: biotypology (the scientific classification of bodies), endocrine therapy, and sterilization. The article concludes by suggesting that a eugenically oriented obstetrical and gynecological practice encouraged both endocrine treatments (to achieve the ideal fertile woman) and sterilization, which, in spite of being legally banned, found a subtle application.Y Eraso

Source: Bull Hist Med, Vol. 81, No. 4. (2007), pp. 793-822.
Marginalising 'eugenic anxiety' through a rhetoric of 'liberal choice': a critique of the House of Commons Select Committee Report on reproductive technologies: New Genetics & Society, Vol. 26, No. 2. (August 2007), pp. 159-179.Mittra , James

Source: New Genetics & Society, Vol. 26, No. 2. (August 2007), pp. 159-179.
SELECTING POTENTIAL CHILDREN AND UNCONDITIONAL PARENTAL LOVE: Bioethics, Vol. 0, No. 0. (0), pp. ???-???.ABSTRA CT For now, the best way to select a child's genes is to select a potential child who has those genes, using genetic testing and either selective abortion, sperm and egg donors, or selecting embryos for implantation. Some people even wish to select against genes that are only mildly undesirable, or to select for superior genes. I call this selection drift - the standard for acceptable children is creeping upwards. The President's Council on Bioethics and others have raised the parental love objection: Just as we should love existing children unconditionall y, so we should unconditionall y accept whatever child we get in the natural course of things. If we set conditions on which child we get, we are setting conditions on our love for whatever child we get. Although this objection was prompted by selection drift, it also seems to cover selecting against genes for severe impairments. I argue that selection drift is not inconsistent with the ideal of unconditional parental love and, moreover, that the latter actually implies that we should practise selection drift - in other words, we should try to select potential children with the best genetic endowments. My endowment argument for the second claim works from an analogy between arranging an endowment prior to conception to fund a future child's education, and arranging a genetic endowment by selecting a potential child who already has it, where in both cases the child would not have existed without the endowment. I conclude with some programmatic remarks about the nonidentity problem.JOHN Davis

Source: Bioethics, Vol. 0, No. 0. (0), pp. ???-???.
Private and Public Eugenics: Genetic Testing and Screening in India: Journal of Bioethical InquiryAbstrac t Epidemiolog ists and geneticists claim that genetics has an increasing role to play in public health policies and programs in the future. Within this perspective, genetic testing and screening are instrumental in avoiding the birth of children with serious, costly or untreatable disorders. This paper discusses genetic testing and screening within the framework of eugenics in the health care context of India. Observations are based on literature review and empirical research using qualitative methods. I distinguish ?private? from ?public? eugenics. I refer to the practice of prenatal diagnosis as an aspect of private eugenics, when the initiative to test comes from the pregnant woman herself. Public eugenics involves testing initiated by the state or medical profession through (more or less) obligatory testing programmes. To illustrate these concepts I discuss the management of thalassaemia, which I see as an example of private eugenics that is moving into the sphere of public eugenics. I then discuss the recently launched newborn screening programme as an example of public eugenics. I use Foucault?s concepts of power and governmentalit y to explore the thin line separating individual choice and overt or covert coercion, and between private and public eugenics. We can expect that the use of genetic testing technology will have serious and far-reaching implications for cultural perceptions regarding health and disease and women?s experience of pregnancy, besides creating new ethical dilemmas and new professional and parental responsibiliti es. Therefore, culturally sensitive health literacy programmes to empower the public and sensitise professionals need attention.Jyot sna Gupta

Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
Eugenics and the Left: Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 45, No. 4. (1984), pp. 567-590.Diane Paul

Source: Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 45, No. 4. (1984), pp. 567-590.
Science and Values: The Eugenics Movement in Germany and Russia in the 1920s: The American Historical Review, Vol. 82, No. 5. (1977), pp. 1133-1164.Lore n Graham

Source: The American Historical Review, Vol. 82, No. 5. (1977), pp. 1133-1164.
Finding Deficiency: On Eugenics, Economics, and Certainty: The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 64, No. 3. (July 2005), pp. 887-900.In these comments, Professor Smith discusses the preceding group of symposium papers and reminds us that eugenic ideas are still part of the society in which we live.Mark Smith

Source: The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 64, No. 3. (July 2005), pp. 887-900.
"Breed Out the Unfit and Breed In the Fit": Irving Fisher, Economics, and the Science of Heredity: The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 64, No. 3. (July 2005), pp. 793-826.Fisher 's virulent positions on such themes as "race degeneration", the necessity of sterilization measures for certain categories of the American population, and his urgent call for the control of the genetic quality of new immigrants are hardly consistent with the opalescent subtlety of academic disputes over the nature of capital and interest. Although Fisher repeats it often: in his work, this question of the nature of capital and interest is directly linked to eugenic assumptions and analysis. This second body of Fisherian work illuminates the strong epistemologica l and theoretical references in Fisher's work as an economist. This paper addresses this question through three major themes: the constant denunciation of a "racial decay" of the American population and its corollary: the project of setting up a "scientific humaniculture" ; the plea against the eugenic effects of World War I, and the then haunting question of the closing of the "Golden Door".Annie Cot

Source: The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 64, No. 3. (July 2005), pp. 793-826.

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