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Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne, The University of Melbourne

Eugenics was previously the realm of social biology. Wikimedia Commons

October 15, 2018

Boyer Lectures: the new eugenics is the same as the old, just in fancier clothes

Ross L Jones, The University of Melbourne

If those who survive are the fittest, does that also make them the best? And if so, is engineering ‘better’ babies just evolution, or another step in a long history of eugenics?

Medical schools once battled with a shortage of cadavers, which led to some unsavoury practices. Derek Harper

April 17, 2012

Donating your body to science? Don’t worry, it’s not what it used to be

Ross L Jones, University of Sydney

The recent discovery of hundreds of human body parts in the University of Cologne’s cellars shocked Germany’s academic community and raised broader questions about the rights of people who donate their…

Francis Galton pioneered the concept of eugenics in this lab in London in the late 19th century. Flickr/Science Museum London

September 20, 2011

Eugenics in Australia: The secret of Melbourne’s elite

Ross L Jones, University of Sydney

Eugenics — the science of improving the race —was a powerful influence on the development of Western civilisation in the first half of the twentieth century. And Melbourne’s elite were among its chief…

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