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Does One Size Fit All?
In the 10th essay in the Legacies of Eugenics series, Jay S. Kaufman shows how the science of human body size is suffused with cultural assumptions.
Legacies of Eugenics
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Legacies of Eugenics is a series made up of essays by those who think deeply about what eugenics is; its entanglements with science, technology and medicine; and its past and futures. Osagie K. Obasogie, professor of law and bioethics at the University of California, Berkeley, is the project lead. The series is run by LARB science editor Michele Pridmore-Brown.
The project emerged in response to the discovery of a fund at UC Berkeley School of Public Health that was originally established in the 1970s to promote eugenics research. It has now been repurposed to do the opposite. This series is supported by the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, the Othering & Belonging Institute, the Center for Genetics and Society, and the Nova Institute for Health.
Legacies of Eugenics is a series made up of essays by those who think deeply about what eugenics is; its entanglements with science, technology and medicine; and its past and futures. Osagie K. Obasogie, professor of law and bioethics at the University of California, Berkeley, is the project lead. The series is run by LARB science editor Michele Pridmore-Brown.
The project emerged in response to the discovery of a fund at UC Berkeley School of Public Health that was originally established in the 1970s to promote eugenics research. It has now been repurposed to do the opposite. This series is supported by the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, the Othering & Belonging Institute, the Center for Genetics and Society, and the Nova Institute for Health.
Murderous Genes and Criminal Brains
In the ninth essay in the Legacies of Eugenics series, Oliver Rollins explores how the new biology of crime opens a backdoor to eugenics.
Trumpian “Common Sense” and the History of IQ Tests
In the eighth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Pepper Stetler explores the troubling history of IQ tests and special education.
Who Shall and Shall Not Have a Place in the World?
In the seventh essay in the Legacies of Eugenics series, Lily Hu asks whether the racialist and eugenicist roots of statistics can be cordoned off from “proper” science.
The Politics of Pigmentation
In the sixth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Suman Seth explores the anti-history of the evolution of whiteness.
The New Artificial Intelligentsia
In the fifth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Ruha Benjamin explores how AI evangelists wrap their self-interest in a cloak of humanistic concern.
The DNA Dreams of the New Eugenics
In the fourth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Patricia Williams explores how “new-genics” projects encode social bias.
Breeding for IQ
Emily R. Klancher Merchant examines the growing enthusiasm among tech elites for genetically engineering their children, in the third essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series.
The “Correlation” Between Statistics and Eugenics
In the second essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Aubrey Clayton excavates the troubling correlation between the birth of statistical methods and the history of eugenics.
Legacies of Eugenics: An Introduction
In the first of a series, Osagie K. Obasogie explores the history and persistence of eugenics in science, medicine, and elsewhere.
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