http://mindtools.twoday.net/ age_man_eight age_man_eight 2005-09-03T13:06:18Z en hourly 1 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z http://twoday.net/static/mindtools/images/icon.jpg http://mindtools.twoday.net/ http://mindtools.twoday.net/stories/948041/ The Social Anthropology Department of the University of Bergen, holds a workshop on "Biotechnology and its Social and Ethical Implications: Present and Future" (Sept. 30 - Oct. 2, Bergen, Norway):<br /> <a href="http://www.svf.uib.no/sfu/vitalmatters/Biotechnology2005">http://www.svf.uib.no/sfu/vitalmatters/Biotechnology2005</a> age_man_eight Biotechnology Copyright © 2005 age_man_eight 2005-09-03T13:06:18Z http://mindtools.twoday.net/stories/948011/ Thanx to Seb. for sending me this great link:<br /> <a href="http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/">http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/</a><br /> Its an archive, where many texts about the eugenic movement in the USA (1910-1940) can be found:<br /> <i>Eugenics was, quite literally, an effort to breed better human beings &#8211; by encouraging the reproduction of people with "good" genes and discouraging those with "bad" genes. Eugenicists effectively lobbied for social legislation to keep racial and ethnic groups separate, to restrict immigration from southern and eastern Europe, and to sterilize people considered "genetically unfit." Elements of the American eugenics movement were models for the Nazis, whose radical adaptation of eugenics culminated in the Holocaust.</i> age_man_eight Biotechnology Copyright © 2005 age_man_eight 2005-09-03T12:53:34Z Search this site: q http://mindtools.twoday.net/search