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Backdoor eugenics: the troubling implications of certain damages awards in wrongful birth and wrongful life claims.

Prenatal diagnosis and the trouble with eugenics.

[Franz Josef Kallmann (1897-1965) and the transfer of psychiatric-genetic scientific concepts from national socialist Germany to the U.S.A].

[Some remarks on the protection of human embryo in the Spanish law]

To end the degeneration of a nation: debates on eugenic sterilization in inter-war Romania.

[The progressive legal vulnerability of embryonic human life in Spain: the law 35/1988 to 14/2006 and law 14/2007]

Race, science and a novel: an interdisciplinary dialogue.

Which future for social psychiatry?

The experience of beta-thalassaemiaand its prevention in Cyprus.

Disability and genetics in the era of genomic medicine.

Science's twin taboos. Is it premature to declare that the debates about the role of religion and race in science are closed?

Being Bleuler: the second century of schizophrenia.

Patient-tailored medicine, Part one: the impact of race and genetics on medicine.

Preimplantation genetic diagnosis: an ambiguous legal status for an ambiguous medical and social practice.

Germline modification carries risk of major social harm.

Eugenics, sex and the state: an afterword.

Beyond eugenics: the forgotten scandal of hybridizing humans and apes.

John Stuart Mill, innate differences, and the regulation of reproduction.

Eugenics, sexual pedagogy and social change: constructing the responsible subject of governmentality in the Spanish Second Republic.

Sex on the brain: the rise and fall of German sexual science.