From state eugenics to private eugenics
by
Missa JN.
Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Bioethique,
Universite Libre de Bruxelles,
Brussels, Belgium.
Baillieres Best Pract Res Clin Obstet Gynaecol. 1999 Dec;13(4):533-41.

ABSTRACT

Eugenics--or 'the cultivation of a race'--is a concept dating from the latter part of the 19th century. It preceded the new science of genetics by merely 25 years. Negative eugenics stressed especially the exclusion of negative characteristics and was associated with the practice and theory of radical eugenics between the two World Wars. In order to redress 'the decline of the race', reinforcement by positive eugenics was also advocated. After the atrocities committed by the Nazis there was a lull in the practice and discourse of eugenics. More recent technical advances in assisted reproduction techniques and the genome project, however, have revived the eugenics debate. State eugenics and eugenics as an individual choice ought to be distinguished.

Eugenics talk
Reprogenetics
Liberal Eugenics
'Saviour siblings'
Personal genomics
Hungarian eugenics
Psychiatric genetics
'Liberal eugenics' (PDF)
Scandanavian eugenics
Selecting potential children
Artificial insemination and eugenics
Transhumanism/Brave New World?
'The Principle of Procreative Beneficience'
Francis Galton and contemporary eugenics
Gene therapy and performance enhancement
The commercialisation of pre-natal enhancement
Biologising social problems under the banner of eugenics

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