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Genetics

Rehabilitating eugenics

Michael Cook | 07 March 2011 |

tags: genetic determinism, genetics

Increasingly, people believe that their fates are written in their genes.

Tales from the Dirty War

Michael Cook | 27 September 2010 |

tags: adoption, Argentina, families, genetics

Knowledge of the human genome adds another layer of complication to family relationships.

The disappearing disabled

Mark Mostert | 25 February 2010 |

tags: disabilities, eugenics, genetics

Dread genetic diseases are disappearing -- because parents and doctors are eliminating the children who have them.

Pre-natal diagnostic techniques pave the way to eugenics

Manuel and Sophia Corpas | 18 November 2009 |

tags: eugenics, genetics, prenatal tests

Ever-more sophisticated technology allows us to detect ever more genetic anomalies. What will we do with this knowledge?

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