Could the explosion of genetic research in recent decades affect our conceptions of race?
In Backdoor to Eugenics, Duster argues that reports of specific racial differences in genetic …

… Whilst the word has dropped out of favor in the US, the actual practice of eugenics remained
… of eugenics for its own horrifying purposes. We consider the idea of eugenics in the context …

Considered a classic in the field, Troy Duster's Backdoor to Eugenics was a groundbreaking
book that grappled with the social and political implications of the new genetic technologies. …

… genetic counseling and eugenics movements-… " eugenics by the back door." 2 It does so
in three parts. Part I describes the relationship between prenatal genetic analysis and eugenics …

… From exercising choice and acting discriminatorily as a prospective parent to attaching a
stigma and involving the state in that individual choice, a backdoor eugenics movement has …

My thinking about eugenics for the past decade has drawn both on my experiences in … small
number of eugenics survivors in the Canadian province of Alberta, where eugenic sexual …

… In 1990, in a book describing his view of human genetics, Berkeley sociologist Troy Duster
spoke about a back door to eugenics, one that is made up of “screens, treatments, and …

Drug costs consume a relatively small component of the mental health budget, accounting for
only about 5% of the estimated£ 1 billion annual direct cost of providing care and treatment …

… This Article explores new innovations in life sciences that make eugenics inevitable-for a …
scientific breakthroughs to demonstrate how the new eugenics is not deemed horrific-but rather …

… eugenic potential of the Human Genome Project led to talk of the rise of ‘newgenics’ and of
a backdoor to eugenics. … This article will concentrate on key components of eugenic thinking …