Athena’s Reviews > Inheriting Shame: The Story of Eugenics and Racism in America > Status Update

There are many parallels btwn modern bio educatjon (as I've experienced it) and the eugenics movement. Bio education places emphasis on:

- non instrumental value of bio as a science (as opposed to a policy making tool, political weapon)
- existence and importance of, evidence for, genetic diversity + exceptions to Mendelian genetics
- intellectual humility

I womder why we aren't taught more about this in class?

"In what seems almost a parody of science"
Basically a possible intro for ANY sentence in a history of eugenics😭

History books are so cool!!! Though i understand that the general perception of them is as being dry, narrative, "textbook-y", this has not been the case for the handful of self-namedly historical texts