Behavioural genetics: why eugenic selection is preferable to enhancement.

Ernst Rüdin and the State of Science.

It should be no surprise to the readers of this journal that the intersection of eugenics, psychiatry, and National Socialism in the work of Swiss-born German scientist and physician Ernst Rüdin ended poorly for the victims of his abominable ideas. As one of the primary architects of Nazi eugenics, Rüdin’s impact was felt most immediately in the euthanasia programs that his ideas instigated and...

مروری بر یوژنیک و سیر تحولی آن

Eugenics or the science of breeding humans is a movement based on biological concepts that advocate policies for improvement of the human population genetics. It has also served as a determinant factor and reference in many social disciplines including law and punishment during certain periods in history. In fact, based on eugenic policies, which were affirmed by biologists, health experts and ...

کمینه‌ای‌ شدن مسؤولیت کیفری، گامی در شناسایی حقوق بیماران قربانی نقص در «فناوری ارتقای توانمندی‌های بشری»

Human Enhancement Technology (HET) is among the most recent developments in genetics, which includes the enhancement of human physical and spiritual capabilities to areas far beyond the limits of disease treatment and even beyond the boundaries of complete health. In spite of hopes, there are still considerable concerns about the change of human identity, the collapse of the life concept, the e...

Can we learn from eugenics?

Eugenics casts a long shadow over contemporary genetics. Any measure, whether in clinical genetics or biotechnology, which is suspected of eugenic intent is likely to be opposed on that ground. Yet there is little consensus on what this word signifies, and often only a remote connection to the very complex set of social movements which took that name. After a brief historical summary of eugenic...

Redrafted Chinese law remains eugenic.