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Eugene
A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
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Eugene [Gk., well-born]. Spurious anglicization of
Eógan; less commonly, for
Eochaid.
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Regulating eugenics.
Magazine article from: Harvard Law Review; 4/1/2008; 700+ words
; ...moral philosophers have recently argued in favor of "liberal eugenics." (3) This term is somewhat of a misnomer, because liberal eugenics has almost nothing to do with the eugenics of the twentieth century. Liberal eugenicists reject coercive...
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Eugenics and the Clergy in the Early Twentieth-Century United States
Magazine article from: The Journal of American Culture; 12/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...encounter of liberal Christianity and eugenics. In this article, I examine the following...did the clergy play in the American eugenics movement? Finally, what caused the...background is called for first. The word "eugenics" was coined by English scientist Francis...
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Popular Eugenics: American Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s
Magazine article from: Journalism History; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Susan and Christina Cogdell. Popular Eugenics: American Efficiency and American Mass...media rarely cover it, a modern form of eugenics is still a part of U.S. culture...when most modern Americans think of eugenics, they believe it was either a Nazi phenomenon...
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Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Shofar; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement, by Christine Rosen. New York: Oxford University...37.50. In her very interesting book, Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement...
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Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement.
Magazine article from: National Right to Life News; 8/1/2004; 700+ words
; Reviewed by Wesley Smith Eugenics - - now, there's one of those words...re too embarrassed to call it "eugenics" any more. The movement got its...save the race through a "positive eugenics" in which eugenically superior people...
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Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Church History; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement. By Christine Rosen. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. viii + 286 pp. $35.00 cloth. Eugenics has traditionally been the purview of historians of...
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Liberal eugenics & human nature against Habermas.
Magazine article from: The Hastings Center Report; 11/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; The view now often dubbed "liberal eugenics" holds that people should be able to...slippery slope" arguments against liberal eugenics are powerful and important, attempts...the human nature objection to liberal eugenics. I critique four arguments deployed...
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Locating Adelaide eugenics: venereal diseases and the South Australian branch of the British Science Guild 1911-1914.
Magazine article from: Journal of Australian Studies; 9/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...practical scheme ensuing from the study of eugenics the problems of the eradication of venereal...eradicate crime, poverty and illness. Eugenics, the science and practice of improving...At the end of the nineteenth century, eugenics was one of a number of 'scientific discourses...
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Rosen, Christine: Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Rosen, Christine Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement Oxford: Oxford University Press 286...X Publication Date: March 2004 In Preaching Eugenics, Christine Rosen examines the involvement of...
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Cloning and the new eugenics
Magazine article from: Human Life Review; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; It's ba-aack. Eugenics, the ideology that seeks to improve humankind...recent breakthroughs in bioscience, a "new eugenics" would be far more robust and effective than the "old eugenics" ever was. Eugenics originated with the English...
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Eugenics
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
EUGENICS. The term eugenics, derived from the Greek eugenes, was first coined by the English...intellectual and social movement in the early twentieth century, eugenics came to mean, in the words of one of its strongest American supporters...
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The Decline of the Eugenics Movement
Book article from: American Decades
THE DECLINE OF THE EUGENICS MOVEMENT The Origins of Modern Eugenics The modern idea of eugenics originated in England in 1883 with Sir Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin who helped found a British society to study eugenics. A sister organization...
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eugenics
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
eugenics The founder of eugenics, Francis Galton, identified it as ‘the study of agencies...inheritance that would prescribe new rules for human reproduction. Eugenics, therefore, was both a theoretical system and a social cause...
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Eugenics and the Law
Book article from: American Decades
EUGENICS AND THE LAW Theory of Eugenics In 1883 the English scientist Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, coined the word eugenics to describe the science that concerned itself with those qualities...
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Involuntary Sterilization: Eugenics and Public Policy
Book article from: American Decades
INVOLUNTARY STERILIZATION: EUGENICS AND PUBLIC POLICY Heredity versus Environment During the 1920s...who subscribed to such thinking were usually firm believers in eugenics, a science that deals with improving the hereditary quality of...
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