Episode 2

Episode 2

Available on MagellanTV Documentaries
S1 E2: It’s thought that eugenics disappeared after the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust, but eugenic practices, such as the sterilization of the poor, continued on a global scale for many more years. Do eugenic-style attitudes towards the poor and disabled continue? And could breakthroughs in medicine, such as screening and gene editing, plus prejudice against the disabled, bring a form of eugenics back?