Eugenics Is Alive and Well
A Survey of Genetic Professionals around the World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4516246 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dorothy C Wertz (Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 493-510 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science in Context (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0269-8897 • E-ISSN: 1474-0664 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0269889700003173 |
| PMID | 15168676 |
| OpenAlex | W2115813845 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 7 |
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
Genetic Counseling
Eugenics is Back’? Historic References in Current Discussions of Germline Gene Editing
Biopolitics in the Twenty First Century—Notes For a Research Agenda
Between social hypocrisy and social responsibility
Resurecting raciology? Genetic ethnology and pre-1945 anthropological race classification
Foetal Disability and Abortion in the UK
Understanding public support for eugenic policies
The Politics of Life Itself
Eugenic utopias/dystopias, reprogenetics, and community genetics
Expansion and uncertainty
The chosen body
Aysha
The devolution of eugenic practices
Important to test, important to support
The Emergence of Genetic Counseling in Sweden
Norm Change in Genetic Services. How the Discourse of Choice Replaced the Discourse of Prevention
The need for fictive lines
Upright Generations of the Future
The Politics of Life Itself
Genetic-Social Science and the Study of Human Biotechnology
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2025 (25) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |