Déjà vu all over again? Cultural understanding vs. horrors of eugenics
Scientific efforts to explain feeblemindedness, delinquency and racial inferiorities date to the Spanish Inquisition. And while the horrors of Nazi Germany exposed fatal flaws
in science’s quest to build the master race, the ethical dilemmas posed
by the science of eugenics are far from behind us, warns an anthropologist from Washington University in St. Louis.