Eugenics is an old word and an old idea, but because of its historical role it demands
attention in this Symposium issue on legal and cultural responses to disability. Francis …

Can one write a “long” history of eugenics? In one way or another, this question has
animated debate among historians of eugenics, bioethicists, and disability studies scholars …

While much has been published about the American eugenics movement, few authors have
considered the relative status of various disability populations as targets of eugenic control …

Evolutionary selection has been radically relaxed in the human species as a result of the
development of civilization, science in general, and medicine in particular. While these …

We are in a period of unusually intense activity with respect to evolving a new societal
paradigm--the store of values, attitudes, beliefs, commitments and myths--" the shared story" …

Different meanings apply to coercion in different political traditions: for classical liberals and
contemporary (libertarian) conservatives, coercion implies the deliberate interference of …

This article is written in response to the idea that selective termination may be eugenic. It
points out that a mixture of motives and goals may inform screening programmes and …

The article addresses the problem of disability in the context of reproductive decisions based
on genetic information. It poses the question of whether selective procreation should be …

This paper focuses on one objection to the use of reproductive genetic technologies (RGTs):
the argument known as the expressivist objection. According to this argument, the choice to …

Galton took the name for his new science of improving human stock from the Greek eugenes
or'good in birth'. It is hard to think of an enterprise less fortunate in birth. 1 Eugenicists …