...C.C. Li Eugenics, unlike science, involves decision making on various issues, and decision making involves the risk of making errors. This communication first clarifies the nature and seriousness of making errors known as type II in the statistical literature, i.e. the error of punishing a person...

...James V. Neel It is argued that at the population level there are three central genetic developments raising ethical issues. The first is the emergence of ‘soft’ eugenics, due primarily to the increasing ability to detect carriers of genetic diseases, to monitor their pregnancies, and to provide...

... structure Nonmendelian genetics Nomenclature Eugenics Genetic epidemiology as a recognised science is now about 40 years old, although its roots may be traced in the development of human genetics a few years earlier. A dwindling handful of retired gentlemen remember these early efforts...