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Confronting the "Weaponization" of Genetics by Racists Online and Elsewhere.
Hastings Cent Rep
December 2024
Genomics research is regularly appropriated in social and political contexts to publicly legitimize unjust and malicious political views, policies, and actions. In recent years, there have been high-profile cases of mass shooters, public intellectuals, and political insiders using genomics findings to convince audiences that deadly force and coercive policies against racial minorities are warranted. To create a just genomics, geneticists must consider what makes their research so attractive and adaptable for the legitimization of unjust ends and what they can do to counter such appropriations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHistory of Eugenics in Otorhinolaryngology: Ernst Rüdin and the International Eugenics Network.
Int Arch Otorhinolaryngol
April 2024
Hohendodeleben, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
The early geneticist and psychiatrist Ernst Rüdin (1874-1952) became one of the key figures in the eugenics movement and in the German health system of the Nazi era. His connections in the international eugenics network have played an important role in the history of eugenics. To discuss the connections between Ernst Rüdin's scientific group in Munich and Otmar von Verschuer's group in Frankfurt during the Nazi era.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA historical perspective on Lionel Penrose: Scientist, geneticist and dedicated opponent of eugenics.
Ann Hum Genet
April 2024
Department of Political Science, University College London, London, UK.
The paper explores Lionel Penrose's scientific work. Penrose investigated the causes of mental disorders from clinical and genetic points of view. His investigations on phenylketonuria and Down syndrome helped to demonstrate the heterogenous character of mental disorders, whose causes can range from genetic with high penetrance, to largely environmental.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBetween scientific dissemination and late-stage eugenics: ruptures and continuations in the intellectual trajectory of Salvador de Toledo Piza Jr., 1898-1988.
Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos
July 2023
Doutorando, Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação/Universidade Federal de São Carlos. São Carlos - SP - Brasil
This article analyzes the ruptures from and continuations of eugenicist ideology in the work of Salvador de Toledo Piza Jr., a geneticist and professor at the Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz." Documentary research involving articles, correspondence, and notes from this former director of the Boletim de Eugenia investigates the reshaping of eugenics in the post-1945 context, a time when Piza Jr.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFacing Our History-Building an Equitable Future.
Am J Hum Genet
March 2023
American Society of Human Genetics, Rockville, MD, USA.
This report is the product of a major year-long initiative to acknowledge and reckon with past injustice, as well as progress toward justice, within the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) and the broader field of human genetics. Approved by the ASHG Board of Directors and launched in 2021, the initiative was sparked by the social and racial reckonings in 2020. The ASHG Bboard of Directors asked ASHG to acknowledge and provide examples of how human genetics theories and knowledge "have been used to feed and justify racism, eugenics, and other systemic forms of injustice, and to focus specifically on examples of ASHG's role in fostering or failing to rebuke harms and on steps the Society could take to address findings.
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