Eugenics Is Alive and Well

A Survey of Genetic Professionals around the World

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4516246
AutoresDorothy C Wertz (Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center, autor de correspondencia)
Año1998
Volumen11
Número3-4
Páginas493-510
Fecha de publicación1998-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaScience in Context (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0269-8897 • E-ISSN: 1474-0664
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0269889700003173
PMID15168676
OpenAlexW2115813845
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas20
Referencias citadas7

The ArgumentA survey of 2901 genetics professionals in 36 nations suggests that eugenic thought underlies their perceptions of the goals of genetics and that directiveness in counseling after prenatal diagnosis leads to individual decisions based on pessimistically biaed information, especially in developing nations of Asia and Eastern Europe. The "non-directive counseling" found in English-speaking nations is an aberration from the rest of the world. Most geneticists, except in China, rejected government involvement in premarital testing or sterilization, but most also held a pessimistic view of persons with genetic disabilities. Individual, but not state-coerced, eugenics survives in much modern genetic practice

Biology · China · Developed country · Epistemology · Eugenics · Genetic counseling · Pessimism · Political science · Population · Sociology · BRCA gene mutations in cancer · Demography · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare · Law · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies · Genetics