The new book “‘Vermont for the Vermonters’: The History of Eugenics in the Green Mountain State,” as seen on the shelves of Everyone’s Books in Brattleboro. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger When ...
In the Victorian era, in the shadow of Darwin's revolutionary theory of evolution, a sinister ideology took root — eugenics. It was an attempt to impose political control upon humanity’s unruly DNA by ...
When interviewing Mercedes de Guardiola about her book “Vermont for the Vermonters: The History of Eugenics in the Green Mountain State,” I thanked her for having ruined my previous weekend. While the ...
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Eugenics, or the pseudoscience of human breeding, reached the height of its notoriety in the early 1900s but never truly disappeared, according to a new book that examines the ...
In the world of pseudo-science, eugenics holds a dark position in history thanks to its being a social philosophy based on improving society via the manipulation of a population’s genetic stock. Its ...
The Vermont Historical Society will publish a new book about the history of the state's eugenics movement on Sept. 28: "Vermont for the Vermonters": The History of Eugenics in the Green Mountain State ...
New book recounts how eugenics, forced sterilization were studied in Cold Spring Harbor in the 1920s
Spring 1924 was the high water mark for the Eugenics Record Office, a Cold Spring Harbor research facility whose staff hoped to use selective breeding to engineer the human race. The work is now ...
Anita Say Chan, an associate professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has authored a new book that identifies how the eugenics movement ...
Justice Clarence Thomas took an unusual foray in an abortion related court opinion on Tuesday, warning his colleagues of the potential that abortion could become a "tool of eugenic manipulation." ...
It’s not every day I get called creepy and am lumped in with eugenicists by a journalism professor. But also, it’s weirdly common for liberals in the media to level such charges at those of us who ...
When interviewing Mercedes de Guardiola about her book “Vermont for the Vermonters: The History of Eugenics in the Green Mountain State,” I thanked her for having ruined my previous weekend. While the ...
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