Taking Eugenics Seriously

Three Generations of ??? are Enough?
By Prof. Paul A. Lombardo
University of Virgina Center for Biomedical Ethics

Florida Law Review [Vol 30: 191 2003]

I. GENETICS/EUGENICS IN THE PRESS
II. WHY EUGENICS IS ONE OF HISTORY’S DIRTY WORDS
III. LUCIEN HOWE AND THE CAMPAIGN TO ERADICATE “HEREDITARY BLINDNESS”
IV. POPULARITY OF THE EUGENICS MOVEMENT
V. CONCLUSION: THREE GENERATIONS OF ??? ARE ENOUGH?

It will, I think, be clear to anyone who examines the records of
the period from 1900 to about the middle thirties that the manner
in which the eugenics movement developed cast a long shadow
over the growth of sound knowledge of human genetics . . . .

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