Can we learn from eugenics?

Journal of Medical Ethics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 183-194

  Wikler, Daniel ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Ethics; Eugenics; Genetics; Justice

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CLINICAL GENETICS; HUMAN; MEDICAL GENETICS; REVIEW;

EID: 0032898406     PISSN: 03066800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jme.25.2.183     Document Type: Review

References (40)

1. Chan CK, Chee HL Singapore 1984: breeding for Big Brother. In: Chee HL, Chan CK, eds. Designer genes: IQ, ideology, and biology. Kuala Lumpur: Institute for Social Analysis, 1984: 4-13.
2. Beardsley T. China syndrome: China's eugenics law makes trouble for science and business. Scientific American 1997;Mar: 33-4.
3. Dong-Sheng S. Popularizing the knowledge of eugenics and advocating optimal births vigorously. Beijing: Renkou Yanjiu (Population Research) 1981;4:37-41.
4. Wertz D. Eugenics: alive and well in China. The Gene Letter 1996;I.
5. Galton F. Inquiries into human faculty and its development. London: J M Dent and Sons, 1883.
6. Weindling P. Health, race and german politics between national unification and nazism 1870-1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
7. Kevles DJ. In the name of eugenics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985:590.
8. Rafter NH. White trash: the eugenic family studies 1877-1919. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1988.
9. MacKenzie D. Eugenics in Britain. Social Studies of Science 1976;6: 499-532.
10. Mazumdar PMH. Eugenics, human genetics and human failings: the eugenics society, its sources and its critics in Britain. London: Routledge, 1992.
11. Schneider W. The eugenics movement in France, 1890-1940. In: Adams M, ed. The well-born science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.
12. Stepan NL. The hour of eugenics: race, gender and nation in Latin America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.
13. Weiss S. The race hygiene movement in Germany. Osiris 1987; 3:193-236.
14. Proctor R. Racial hygiene: medicine under the Nazis. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988.
15. Paul DB. Controlling human heredity. New York: Academic Press, 1995.
16. Broberg G, Roll-Hansen N. Eugenics and the welfare state: sterilization policy in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1996.
17. Roll-Hansen N. Geneticists and the Eugenics Movement in Scandinavia. British Journal for the History of Science. 1989;22: 335-46.
18. Burleigh M, Wippermann W. The racial state: Germany 1933-1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
19. Aly G, Chroust P, Pross C. Cleansing the Fatherland: Nazi medicine and racial hygiene. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
20. Wikler D, Barondess J. Bioethics and anti-bioethics in Germany: what must we remember? Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 1993;3:39-55.
21. Kuhl S. The Nazi connection: eugenics, American racism, and National Socialism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
22. Paul DB. The Rockefeller Foundation and the origins of Behavior Genetics. In: K Benson et al. The expansion of American biology. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991.
23. Pernick M. The black stork. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
24. Paul DB. Controlling human heredity. New York: Academic Press, 1995.
25. Parfit D. Reasons and persons. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.
26. Hansen BS. Something rotten in the state of Denmark: eugenics and the ascent of the welfare state. See reference 16: 9-76.
27. Davenport C. The eugenics programme and progress in its achievement. In: Morton A, Aldrich et al, eds. Eugenics: twelve university lectures. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co, 1922.
28. Holmes OW. Opinion in Buck v Bell, 1927, 274 US 205, 207.
29. Reilly PR. The surgical solution: a history of involuntary sterilization in the United States. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.
30. Herrnstein RJ, Murray C. The bell curve. New York: Free Press, 1994.
31. Quoted in Kevles DJ. Out of eugenics: the historical politics of the human genome. In: Kevles DJ, Hood L, eds. The code of codes. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992.
32. Watson J. Genes and politics: presidential address. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory annual report, 1996. Cold Spring Harbor, New York: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1997.
33. King D, Hansen R. Experts at work: state autonomy, social learning and eugenic sterilization in 1930s Britain. Journal of Political Science 1999;29:133-63 (in press)
34. Duster T. Backdoor to eugenics. New York: Routledge, 1990.
35. Wachbroit R. What is wrong with eugenics? QQ Report from the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy 1987;7:6-8.
36. Muller C. A window on the past: the position of the client in twentieth century public health thought and practice. American Journal of Public Health 1985;75,5:470-5.
37. Pernick M. Eugenics and public health in American history. American Journal of Public Health 1997;87:1767-72.
38. Kamrat-Lang D. Healing society: medical language in American eugenics. Science in context 1995;8:175-96.
39. Rawls J. A theory of justice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971:3-4.
40. Anonymous [editorial]. China's misconception of eugenics. Nature 1994;367:1-2.