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In this collection of poetry, Martha Collins relentlessly traces the history of scientific racism from the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair through the eugenics movement of the 1920s.

Strategies or decisions aimed at affecting, in a manner considered to be positive, the genetic heritage of a child in the context of human reproduction are increasingly being accepted in contemporary society. As a result, unnerving similarities between earlier selection ideology so central to the discredited eugenic regimes of the 20th century and those now on offer suggest that a new era of eugenics has dawned. The time is ripe, therefore, for considering and evaluating from an ethical perspective both current and future selection practices. This inter-disciplinary volume blends research from embryology, genetics, philosophy, sociology, psychology, and history. In so doing, it constructs a thorough picture of the procedures emerging from today's reproductive developments, including a rigorous ethical argumentation concerning the possible advantages and risks related to the new eugenics.

\"With an emphasis on the American West, Eugenic Nation explores the long and unsettled history of eugenics in the United States. This expanded second edition includes shocking details that demonstrate that the story is far from over. Alexandra Minna Stern explores the unauthorized sterilization of female inmates in California state prisons and ongoing reparations for North Carolina victims of sterilization, as well as the topics of race-based intelligence tests, school segregation, the U.S. Border Patrol, tropical medicine, the environmental movement, and opposition to better breeding. Radically new and relevant, this edition draws from recently uncovered historical records to demonstrate patterns of racial bias in California's sterilization program and to recover personal experiences of reproductive injustice. Stern connects the eugenic past to the genomic present with attention to the ethical and social implications of emerging genetic technologies\"--Provided by publisher.

This paper analyzes the Annals of Eugenics, published by the Eugenics Society of Sao Paulo. Upon becoming institutionalized, Eugenics was defined as a scientific, political and social project responsible for materializing and consolidating Eugenics Science. It is an articulated, organized and structured movement, with the aim of implementing, consolidating and perpetuating its proposals through the premises identified in the myth of blood purity, in the colonialist discourse and in its operationalization in scientific racism. Religious, political and scientific assumptions transformed the myth into belief and Eugenics into Science; thus, human improvement became a truth that was consolidated as a scientific trend on a global scale. This proposal was developed with the deliberate intention of constituting, enduring and establishing Eugenics Science. Eugenics aims to expand, reverberate, materialize and make effective a scientific project over humanity. It is an articulated mechanism of inculcation that aims to establish, promote, disseminate and spread its ideas in various social spaces. The result is ideological processes that seek to consolidate Eugenics in Science, Politics and Society. Keywords: Eugenics. Institutional. Project. Scientific. Political. Social. O presente trabalho analisa os Annaes de Eugenia, publicado pela Sociedade Eugenica de Sao Paulo. Ao se institucionalizar, a Eugenia e definida como um projeto cientifico, politico e social, responsavel por materializar e consolidar a Ciencia Eugenica. Trata-se de movimento articulado, organizado e estruturado, com o intuito de implementar, de consolidar e de perpetuar suas propostas por meio das premissas identificadas no mito da pureza de sangue, no discurso colonialista e na sua operacionalizacao no racismo cientifico. Pressupostos religiosos, politicos e cientificos transformaram o mito em crenca e a Eugenia em Ciencia; assim, o aperfeicoamento humano converteu-se em uma verdade que se consolidou como corrente cientifica em escala global. Essa proposta foi desenvolvida com a intencao deliberada de constituir, de perdurar e de estabelecer a Ciencia Eugenica. A Eugenia tem a finalidade de expandir, de reverberar, de materializar e de efetivar sobre a humanidade um projeto cientifico. E um mecanismo articulado de inculcacao que visa estabelecer, fomentar, divulgar e difundir suas ideias nos diversos espacos sociais. O resultado sao processos ideologicos que buscam consolidar a Eugenia na Ciencia, na Politica e na Sociedade. Palavras-chave: Eugenia. Institucional. Projeto. Cientifico. Politico. Social. Este trabajo analiza las Annaes de Eugenia, publicadas por la Sociedad Eugenesica de Sao Paulo. La Eugenesica institucionalizada se define como un proyecto cientifico, politico y social, responsable de materializar y consolidar la Ciencia Eugenesica. Es un movimiento articulado, organizado y estructurado, con el objetivo de implementar, consolidar y perpetuar sus propuestas a traves de las premisas identificadas en el mito de la pureza de sangre, en el discurso colonialista y en su operacionalizacion en el racismo cientifico. Los supuestos religiosos, politicos y cientificos transformaron el mito en creencia y la eugenesia en ciencia; Asi, la mejora humana se convirtio en una verdad que se consolido como tendencia cientifica a escala global. Esta propuesta fue desarrollada con la intencion deliberada de constituir, perdurar y establecer la Ciencia Eugenesica. La eugenesia tiene como proposito expandir, reverberar, materializar e implementar un proyecto cientifico sobre la humanidad. Es un mecanismo articulado de inculcacion que tiene como objetivo establecer, fomentar, dar a conocer y difundir sus ideas en diferentes espacios sociales. El resultado son procesos ideologicos que buscan consolidar la eugenesia en la ciencia, la politica y la sociedad. Palabras clave: Eugenesia. Institucional. Proyecto. Cientifico. Politico. Social.

In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most important of these causes. As doctors and state officials steadily lost faith in the capacity of asylum care to stem the terrible increase of insanity, they began emphasizing the need to curb the reproduction of the insane. They became obsessed with identifying weak or tainted families and anticipating the outcomes of their marriages. Genetics in the Madhouse is the untold story of how the collection and sorting of hereditary data in mental hospitals, schools for \"feebleminded\" children, and prisons gave rise to a new science of human heredity.In this compelling book, Theodore Porter draws on untapped archival evidence from across Europe and North America to bring to light the hidden history behind modern genetics. He looks at the institutional use of pedigree charts, censuses of mental illness, medical-social surveys, and other data techniques--innovative quantitative practices that were worked out in the madhouse long before the manipulation of DNA became possible in the lab. Porter argues that asylum doctors developed many of the ideologies and methods of what would come to be known as eugenics, and deepens our appreciation of the moral issues at stake in data work conducted on the border of subjectivity and science.A bold rethinking of asylum work, Genetics in the Madhouse shows how heredity was a human science as well as a medical and biological one.