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| Eugenics is the study and practice of selective breeding applied to humans, with the aim of improving the species. |
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1880s-1930s: heyday of eugenics
1930s-1940s: Nazis utilize eugenics
1947: eugenics stigmatized @ Nuremberg |
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| Coined the term eugenics. Sparked study of human heredity |
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| Mandatory stripping of reproductive ability. |
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| SCOTUS repeals interracial marriage bans |
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| Eugenic immigration controls |
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| Restrictions on immigration aimed at keeping out "lesser" peoples |
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| Jacobson v. Massachusetts |
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| SCOTUS reaffirms mandatory vaccination |
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| SCOTUS upheld mandatory sterilization of the "unfit" |
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| Nash family had another child for the sole purpose of providing a bone marrow match |
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| A person's phenotypic outcome is inevitable and based on their genetics. |
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| Gene Concepts: Classical/Differential Gene |
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1. Classical/Differential Gene
– “differences in genes are
responsible for differences
in phenotypes” (Waters
1994) |
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| Gene Concepts: Evolutionary Gene |
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Evolutionary Gene
– an evolutionary gene is any
stretch of DNA “which
segregates and recombines
with appreciable frequency” |
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| Gene Concepts: Molecular Gene |
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Molecular Gene
– a gene is for a “linear
sequence in a product at
some stage of genetic
expression” |
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“Public Health is what
we, as a society, do
collectively to assure
the conditions in
which people can be
healthy.” |
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| Public Health & Human Rights |
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| Public health is a human rights problem. |
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| Ethical dilemma of healthcare professional's duty to treat in times of crisis. |
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Assigning a limited supply of healthcare based on certain criteria.
NOTE: Various criteria done in group exercise. |
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| Self-renewing cells that are incredibly useful in research and in regenerating the human body. |
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| "Nothing is lost" principle |
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| Justification to use leftover embryos from IVF in research. |
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| Committee that regulates the use of and research on embryos. |
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| I have no idea what those are. |
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| Hwang obtained oocytes and used them for research, deceiving authorities and patients alike along the way. |
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| Non-human oocytes with human DNA injected. |
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| Genetically modified organisms. Used to make food production harderbetterfasterstronger. Greatly reduces prices at unknown genetic cost. |
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“…lack of full
scientific certainty
shall not be used as a
reason for postponing
cost effective
measures to prevent
environmental |
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| Glover on genetic engineering |
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Objections to genetic
engineering are “based on a
complex of different values
and reasons, none of which
is, when examined,
adequate to rule out in
principle [the] use of genetic
engineering [to improve the
human race].” |
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| Scenario in which parents can choose whichever traits for their children as they like, as seen in GATTACA. |
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