Some of my best friends and favorite colleagues suggest frequently that eugenics lays just behind the surface of many contemporary movements. I’m wondering if there is a best piece that lays out this idea/history. What do you think?
I was partial to Troy Duster's Backdoor to Eugenics when I read it in grad school, but it's been awhile...
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And I really like the work of Diane Paul, esp. on the slipperiness of the term "eugenics" (which can be over-applied to "all sketchy human genetics stuff" in an un-helpful way).
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Yeah. I see this all too often unfortunately. Another sad thing I see is people reducing the Progressive Era to eugenics. There might be some other lessons to draw on from that period like . . . I don’t know, food safety and anti-trust.
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Part of that slipperiness was deliberate: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27793328 Fww I think that eugenics highlights a vital component of progressive policy-willingness to subordinate individual autonomy for collective welfare in public health-- that's the note struck by Holmes in BvB.
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