The Discovery of DNA: Implications for the 21st Century
Dr. James Dewey Watson, having received the 1962 Nobel Laureate for his part in discovering the structure of the DNA molecule, discusses...
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A More Perfect Human: The Promise and the Peril of Modern Science
Hertog Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy
Academic Medicine During the Nazi Period and Implications for Creating Awareness of Professional Responsibility Today | William Seidelman, M.D.
Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto
Frankenstein or the More Perfect Human: Who Will It Be?
Associate Professor, History of Medicine, Yale University
Genetics and Modern Eugenics by Medical Student Amanda Broderick
Few people realize that eugenics was the driving force behind the Nazis’ political philosophy of “Applied Biology.” Even fewer realize...
Medical Ethics and the Holocaust
Dr David Brenner is Visiting Asst. Professor and Lecturer in Comparative Literature, Humanities, and Honors at University of Houston and...
Eugenics: Science as Morality
After WWII and the revelations of the Nazi Doctors’ Trial, eugenics was looked upon with disfavor. American eugenicists still believed in...
Academic Medicine During the Nazi Period and Implications for Today | Prof. Dr. Volker Roelcke
Prof. Dr. Roelcke, Chair and Director of the Institute for the History of Medicine at the University of Giessen in Germany, is an expert...
Clinical Genetics vs. Eugenics
How can we move from the horrors of the Eugenics movement to today’s notion of “clinical genetics.” This article discusses the supposed...
Human Biodiversity and Eugenics
The Forward just published an article by Ari Feldman entitled Human Biodiversity: the Pseudoscientific Racism of the Alt-Right: “Human...
Harvard's Eugenics Era
Adam Cohen ’84, J.D. ’87, the author of the article is also the author of Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics and the...
Germany Grapples with Its African Genocide
The New York Times today published a good article about Germany’s treatment of native Africans in the first part of the twentieth century...
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