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History, Eugenics and Genetics Personal Genetics Education Project (pgEd)

History, Eugenics and Genetics Personal Genetics Education Project (pgEd) Harvard Medical School - Wu Laboratory www.pged.org. The Beery twins, Noah and Alexis. http://the-scientist.com/author/lucy-reading/ (2011). Genome sequencing technology. Oxford Nanopore MinION. Molly and Adam Nash.

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History, Eugenics and Genetics Personal Genetics Education Project (pgEd)

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  1. History, Eugenics and Genetics Personal Genetics Education Project (pgEd) Harvard Medical School - Wu Laboratory www.pged.org

  2. The Beery twins, Noah and Alexis http://the-scientist.com/author/lucy-reading/ (2011)

  3. Genome sequencing technology Oxford Nanopore MinION

  4. Molly and Adam Nash Fanconi anemia (disorder of DNA repair) Cure: PGD, umbilical cord blood stem cells http://tvnoviny.sk/sekcia/spravy/zahranicne/vo-francuzsku-sa-narodilo-prve-dizajnerske-dieta.html

  5. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) Schwartz 2011 Jewish News

  6. Men Women Public attitudes regarding the use of PGD Transplants Adult illness Gender Strength & Intelligence Fatal http://www.dnapolicy.org/resources/2006_Hudson_PGD_public_policy_and_public_attitudes.pdf

  7. American eugenics movement Big idea: Improving society and humanity via selective breeding and sterilization. First half of the 20th century. State and Federal laws addressing issues ranging from immigration to mandatory sterilization. Burlington Free Press, January 24, 1925, p. 1.

  8. Photo by Jacob Riis, courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York

  9. http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/view_image.pl?id=348

  10. “Fitter Family” contests: 1920s – 1940s Georgia State Fair 1924 http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/792.aspx

  11. Laws Against Interracial Marriage

  12. http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/html/eugenics/static/images/958.htmlhttp://www.eugenicsarchive.org/html/eugenics/static/images/958.html

  13. Carrie Buck http://www.saponitown.com/eugenics-carrie-buck/eugenics-carrie-buck.htm

  14. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. http://www.hsl.virginia.edu/historical/eugenics/ “...society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind... Three generations of imbeciles are enough.”

  15. Raymond Pearl Eugenics preaching is “contrary to the best established facts of genetical science.” Carnegie Institution Visiting Committee, 1935: Most of the ERO’s work was without scientific merit and it should cease sponsorship of programs in immigration restriction, sterilization, and race betterment. http://www.dnalc.org/

  16. “We do not stand alone” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wir_stehen_nicht_allein.jpg

  17. Nuremberg Code 4 of the 10 directives for Human Subjects Research • 1. The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential…  • 2. The experiment should be such as to yield fruitful results for the good of society, …  • 4. The experiment should be so conducted as to avoid all unnecessary physical and mental suffering and injury. • 9. During the course of the experiment the human subject should be at liberty to bring the experiment to an end…

  18. Pamphlet from the Human Betterment League of North Carolina – 1950 http://www.wfae.org/

  19. Protests against forced sterilization http://rt.com/usa/news/north-carolina-eugenics-vote-372/ Los Angeles Times

  20. Elaine Riddick – sterilized without her knowledge at the age of 14 http://abcnews.go.com

  21. North Carolina • Eugenic sterilization law enacted February 18, 1929. • Sterilization suitable for “mentally defective persons.” • “The 7,600 victims of the program, which was dissolved in 1977, were largely women and disproportionately members of minorities.” (New York Times). • Any person (e.g., a neighbor) could request someone be sterilized, which would then be considered by a state sterilization board. • After 10 years of debate, the NC legislature passed a budget to provide $10 million to victims. (As of 2013, roughly 200 victims have come forward, so each would receive about $50,000.) • This is the first time reparations have been granted to victims of eugenic sterilization.

  22. Presidential Commission on Bioethical Issues http://www.bioethics.gov/

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