- Institution/s: Universidad de Valladolid
- Project: Diccionario Terminológico de Genética (Eurogene)
- Identification number: 85
- Subdomains: Studies of chromatin, Studies of DNA, Studies of RNA, Techniques
- Author/s: Ana MUÑOZ GASCÓN, Ana María MALLO LAPUERTA, Cristina ADRADA RAFAEL, Teresa AMIDO LOZANO
- Creation / modification date: 01-03-2014
- Term: eugenics
- Gramatical category: s
- Definition: Science which advocates the use of practices aimed at improving the genetic composition of a population, with the deal of getting a fine and healthy race.
- Context: The latest person to take up the cause of the once-discredited movement of eugenics is Nathaniel Comfort [...] “The eugenic impulse drives us to eliminate disease, to live longer and healthier, [...] He claims, provocatively, that eugenics is an irrevocable impulse to improve our selves [...]
- Expression: The science of eugenics. Eugenically superior.
- Notes: Study of human improvement by genetic means. The first thorough exposition of eugenics was made by Francis Galton, who proposed that a system of arranged marriages between men of distinction and women of wealth would eventually produce a gifted race. The
- Weighting mark: nor
- Remission: abrform, ER Fuente: UniProt Consortium (2013). „Cellular component Endoplasmic reticulum“. Recuperado el 24 de abril de 2013 de: http://www.uniprot.org/locations/SL-0095 W. DAVIDSON, Michael, The Florida State University (2004). „The Endoplasmic Reticulum“. Recuperado el 24 de abril de 2013 de: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/cells/endoplasmicreticulum/endoplasmicreticulum.html NAVE, R. (2001). „Endoplasmic Reticulum.“ Hyperphysics, Georgia State University. Recuperado el 29 de abril de 2013 de: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/biology/endret.html
- Sources:
- Term: EMERY, A.E.H. y MUELLER, R.F. (1992) Elements of Medical Genetics, Churchill Livingstone: New York. 8th Edition.
- Definition: NILSSON, Kevin (2013). „Eugenics: A historical analysis“. Recuperado el 29 de abril de 2013 de: http://campus.udayton.edu/~hume/Eugenics/eugenics.htm Lister Hill national Center for Biomedical Communications et ali (2013). „Eugenics“, Genetics H
- Context: ENTINE, Jon. (2012). „Gattaca Alert? Or should we welcome the new age of eugenics?“. Forbes. Recuperado el 21 de abril de 2013 de: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonentine/2012/11/26/gattaca-alert-or-should-we-welcome-the-new-age-of-eugenics/
- Expression: POPENOE, P. y R. HILL JOHNSON (1918). „Applied Eugenics“. Recuperado el 24 de abril de 2013 de: https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/bitstream/handle/1805/1045/Applied%20Eugenics%20-%20Popenoe%20-%20Part%201%20of%204.pdf;jsessionid=38042E95926E7869CA6194B
- Notes: MERRIAM-WEBSTER DICTIONARY. (2013). „Eugenics“. Recuperado el 24 de abril de 2013 de: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eugenics
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