The potential use of genetic engineering has brought back past eugenics into bioethics disputes. There are opinions, such as those of Nicholas Agar, according to which non-coercive eugenics programs are inherently ethical. (Fletcher and Wertz 1990) Adherents of liberal eugenics … Read More
Despite the Nazi horrors, in 1953 the new eugenics was founded, when Watson and Crick postulated the double helix of DNA as the basis of chemical heredity. (Hutton 1978) In 1961, scientists have deciphered the genetic code of DNA, laying … Read More
Sfetcu, Nicolae (2019). “Eugenics”, in Telework, DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.29167.28326/1, URL = https://www.telework.ro/en/eugenics/ Abstract The main concern of the first eugenists, such as Karl Pearson and Walter Weldon of University College London , were the perceived intelligence factors considered to be … Read More
