eugenics
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Patient Rights are Human Rights—Why a Decolonial Approach Is Necessary for All in Europe
Patient Rights in Europe European patient rights emerged from a historical reckoning over human wrongs. After centuries in which medicine was entangled with eugenics, war, institutionalization, and biomedical abuse, Europe sought to constrain medical power through law. Frameworks such as… Continue reading
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The Myth of Scientific Neutrality: Institutional Amnesia and the Scheveningen Eugenic Conference of 1936 – Why does it resonate today?
Introduction: Eugenics as Colonial Violence—Why Its Legacy Demands Our Vigilance Now Eugenics—forged in the crucible of European colonialism by Francis Galton—was never neutral science. It was a weapon. Galton’s theories, born from observing racial hierarchies in British-occupied South Africa, weaponized… Continue reading
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Why I refuse to take an IQ test.
A few years ago, while in therapy, a psychologist wrote on an assessment report that I had a high IQ. They didn’t test me. They just noted, as a matter of fact. As my heart raced as I read the… Continue reading
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From expert-centric Western science to patient and authentic humanity’s self-empowerment: a thought-provoking journey. (Part 1)
The first chapter will delve into the overlooked intersection of expert-centric perception, ego, science’s race theory, eugenics, and European colonization seen from a human and patient-centric perspective. Continue reading
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