Eugenics
Eugenics ( yoo-JEH-niks; from Greek εὐ- 'good' and γενής 'come into being, growing') is a set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population, historically by excluding people and groups judged to be inferior or promoting those judged to be superior.The concept predates the term; Plato suggested applying the principles of selective breeding to humans around 400 BC. Early advocates of eugenics in the 19th century regarded it as a way of improving groups of people. In contemporary usage, the term eugenics is closely associated with scientific racism and white supremacy. Modern bioethicists …
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ICP: Institute for Community Prosperity · 27 February 2024 English
He is an advisor to the Nonprofit Resilience Lab, and on the Editorial Advisory Board of The Philanthropist, and is the lead author of an annual scan of trends and …
considering the rights of persons enthusiasm for eugenics. The Eugenics Archives, a collab- with disabilities.”49 … anyone with comparable verbal a modern version of eugenics - i.e. having the a priori and physical communication … com/2020/07/22/us/ada-disabilities-act-history.html 47 Eugenics Archive. (website, accessed November 14, 2023) …
ICP: Institute for Community Prosperity · 30 January 2024 English
Add to this the killings of thousands in each of the conflicts in Ethiopia, Myanmar and Yemen; the civil war in Sudan, with at least 9,000 killed and another 5.6 …
spectrum of government overreach somewhere between eugenics and preventative arrest.152 Moreover, it is bound …
CPRC: University of Regina Press · 20 January 2024 English
Breaks the deafening silence of Indigenous women’s voices in academic leadership positions. Since the 2015 release of the report on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, new Indigenous policies …
associated institutional policies in the areas of eugenics, intelligence, and human development (Smith, …
CHRC: Canadian Human Rights Commission · 11 December 2023 English
From the procurement of goods, services and facilities to the design and delivery of the programs and services the Commission offers and supports. [...] We are approaching this with the …
evolving language, stereotypes, institutionalization, eugenics, and the disability rights and justice movements …
Canada Council for the Arts · 16 October 2023 English
This includes framing access through an intersectional lens with respect to applicant eligibility, redistributing the labor of access from applicants to arts funding organizations, valuing the relational work of access …
constructed ideas are deeply rooted in anti-Blackness, eugenics, misogyny, colonialism, imperialism and capitalism …
CMA: Canadian Medical Association · 29 September 2023 English
Canadian We would like to respectfully acknowledge that much of the development of this Guideline for the Clinical Management of High-Risk Drinking and document occurred on the ancestral and unceded …
ongoing impacts of colonization, racial science and eugenics, institutionalized racism, and multigenerational …
ICES: Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences · 18 September 2023 English
The aims of this Guidance Document and Framework are to outline organizational strategies improvement has to help implement anti-racist and anti-oppressive practices, support appropriate use of race and related data …
differences in health are historically rooted in eugenics, colonialism and white supremacy. When explaining … and-indigenous- others). identity-data-en.pdf Eugenics is a set of harmful beliefs and practices aimed … through controlled breeding. It includes “negative” eugenics (discouraging or limiting the procreation of people … undesirable characteristics and Eugenics de Bruin, Tabitha and Gerald Robertson. Eugenics in Canada. genes) and … and “positive” eugenics (encouraging the procreation of people considered to have The Canadian Encyclopedia …
CARDUS: Centre for Cultural Renewal · 14 September 2023 English
This report provides an overview of the current situation of euthanasia and assisted suicide in Canada and highlights some of the major ethical problems that exist within it. It also …
are irresponsible. At worse, such calls signify eugenics, given that the call for infanticide has been …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2023 English
After World War II displaced more than sixty million people, Cold War politics opened global eyes and wallets to European displaced persons. The postwar experiences of more than three million …
universities, informed these actions. The Polish eugenics movement advocated the elimination of “social … supporter of Polish eugenics put it in reference to the perfect mar- riage.48 Polish eugenics, even when drawing … a possible source of contamination. However, eugenics was not accepted as the state’s ide- ology, which … in interwar Europe. Theories of degeneracy and eugenics were almost commonly accepted ways of thinking … thinking about nation, community, and family. Eugenics and nationalism were inter- twined in public health …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 May 2023 English
As LSD moves towards the medical mainstream, it continues to evoke powerful memories of the psychedelic sixties and west coast counterculture. In this lively account, Chris Elcock follows a different …
her guests could freely discuss topics like eugenics, women’s rights, and capitalism while smoking …
