2023/04/16

Bad Blood: Newgenics (Eugenics-VI)

 Could powerful genetic technologies usher in a new eugenic era?

Bad Blood: The curse of Mendel (Eugenics-V)

 In the mid-19th Century, Gregor Mendel observed how certain traits were passed on by breeding pea plants, an insight which inspired eugenics from 1900s onwards.

Bad Blood: Rassenhygiene Discovery (Eugenics-IV)

 The mass sterilisation of those deemed ‘unfit’ by the Nazis and a programme of genocide in the name of eugenics.

Bad Blood: Birth controlled (Eugenics-III)

 The women forcibly sterilised against their will and the rise of activism for birth control.

Bad Blood: You will not replace us (Eugenics-II)

The rise of Eugenics and the idea that immigrants and people of colour will out-breed and replace the dominant white 'race in the US.

Bad Blood: You've got good genes Discovery (Eugenics-I)

The origins of Eugenics and the idea that we could breed ourselves to a brighter future by encouraging the right people to have babies. 

Preparing for the next pandemic (DISCOVERY-BBC WORLD)

Disease detectives join Claudia Hammond to investigate escalating pandemic risks and present solutions about how we can defeat the next infectious outbreak before it begins.