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Médecine et Eugénisme*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

L. Gedda
L. Gedda*
Affiliation:
Istituto di Genetica Medica e Gemellologia «Gregorio Mendel», Roma

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The great process of revision of medicine in the light of genetics has sofar traced three main patterns in present medical thinking: normal human genetics, medical genetics, and eugenics.

The birth of genetics represents in nuce the birth of eugenics, or preventive genetics, which, on account of the study of the traits of a man and a woman, may judge of the probabilities of their children with respect to the same traits.

Eugenics makes objective and valid deductions, but one has always to rely on the responsibility of the propositi, and on auto-decision, engaging the conscience of intelligent and free beings.

Type
Research Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , October 1967 , pp. 329 - 341
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1967

Footnotes

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Relation au «Premier Congrès Mondial de Droit Médical» - Gand, 21-24 Août, 1967

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