Articles related to "Eugenics"

Genetic science, while having the potential to support social justice for Indigenous people, is often compromised by racist agendas grounded in Eugenics - Nazi ideology.

The notion behind eugenics is that a species can be improved through selective breeding; it's done with horses and cattle, so why not humans?

The life, times and and many achievements of one of the world's greatest inventors.

Some members of the deaf and dwarf communities want to pass on these characteristics to their offspring. This development is compared to other forms of community identity

Before the organized mass murder of millions in the Death Camps, Nazi Germany had already gassed thousands of asylum patients under the pretext of "euthanasia".

Eugenics and selective breeding did not begin in Nazi Germany, but had roots in the United States, where several states had adopted compulsory sterilization laws.

Aldous Huxley's prescient look into a world beholden to advanced eugenics, social caste, sexuality, and soma is riveting and has aged extremely well.

Here we explore the way the science of eugenics has been used to justify and popularise racial mythology.

Testing for intelligence began growing in popularity in France. Psychologist Alfred Binet was hired by the French government to develop a test.

Each holiday season brings fear of seasonal cookie ear. Hope for therapy or a cure comes with the holly and melts with the snowman. New research provides some answers.

From the 16th century to the 20th century it was quite respectable to hold racist opinions that horrify all decent people today.

The history of mental illness reveals that there are a few ways we tend to intervene, ways that, over time, come and go. Who is served by these interventions?

The global population stands at 6.8 billion and will reach 9 billion by 2050. With numbers skyrocketing, do people have the right to have as many children as they want?

A New York Times interview with Ruth Bader Ginsberg captures the justice's thoughts on Sotomayor and on Roe V. Wade.

Ben Stein's documentary movie "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" adds fuel to the fiery debate over evolution, Intelligent Design, and our cosmic origins.

Auschwitz was an infamous German detention camp. Incoming prisoners were chosen for immediate death, or for medical experimentation under doctors such as Josef Mengele.

Beginning in 1946, 23 German physicians were prosecuted for human experimentation abuses. The resulting Doctors' Trial led to the Nuremberg Code in 1947.

"What to believe?" It's a phrase repeated often in Annie's Ghosts, as author Steve Luxenberg unravels the mystery surrounding his late mother's institutionalized sister.

At the Doctors' Trial, Nazi physicians claimed that their medical abuses should be excused as they had acted no differently than U.S. doctors. Was their allegation true?

The short sayings, aphorisms, in Jean Toomer's Essentials can change the way you think.

While white middle class women represented a steady decline in birth rates, the new immigrants in urban centers exhibited dramatically higher birth rates.

Parents of gifted and high-IQ children often wonder about the source of their child's intelligence.

With this week's anniversary of the controversial Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision of 1973, there is a lot of debate and discussion about the "sanctity of human life."

Despite scientists' certainty that evolution occurs, a large percentage of the population still harbors misconceptions about the theory.