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Direct linkCowan, Ruth Schwartz – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
The connection that critics make between medical genetics and eugenics is historically fallacious. Activists on the political right are as mistaken as activists on the political left: Genetic screening was not eugenics in the past, is not eugenics in the present, and, unless its technological systems become radically transformed, will not be…
Descriptors: Genetics, Nature Nurture Controversy, Diagnostic Tests, Screening Tests
