PDF-(BOOS)-American Eugenics

Traces the history of eugenics ideology in the United States and its ongoing presence in contemporary life The Nazis may have given eugenics its negative connotations but the practiceand the science that supports itis still disturbingly alive in America in antiimmigration initiatives the quest for a gay gene and theories of collective intelligence Tracing the historical roots and persistence of eugenics in the United States Nancy Ordover explores the political and cultural climate that has endowed these campaigns with mass appeal and scientific legitimacy American Eugenics demonstrates how biological theories of race gender and sexuality are crucially linked through a concern with regulating the unfit These links emerge in Ordovers examination of three separate but ultimately related American eugenics campaigns early twentiethcentury antiimmigration crusades medical models and interventions imposed on and sometimes embraced by lesbians gays transgendered people and bisexuals and the compulsory sterilization of poor women and women of color Throughout her work reveals how constructed notions of race gender sexuality and nation are put to ideological uses and how faith in science can undermine progressive social movements drawing liberals and conservatives alike into eugenicsbased discourse and policies. Breeding for a better World. !. T. he eleventh edition of The Encyclopedia Britannica defines eugenics as "the organic . betterment of the race through wise application of the laws of heredity.“ . The word is from a Greek word that means "wellborn." . The short version…. Examples of Disability date back to the earliest historical writings:. We began by appeasing the gods. Thus, by our initial efforts to understand difference we ascribed it to the work of deities . The History of Planned Parenthood. Margaret Sanger. Genesis View: . Humans . are special among all . other . living things, created in the . image . of God. . E. very . person . has value; deserves . Analysis. Presentation at the 2012 annual conference of the Social Science History Association, Vancouver. Please do not quote or cite without permission by the author. Lutz . Kaelber. Assoc. Professor of Sociology. the Ethics of Genetic Choice. Joe Givvin. E-mail: . jgivvin@mtmercy.edu. DETERMINING MY ETHICAL POSITION. GATTICA . Questioning . GATTICA. 4. Problem Case. Babies by Design. Wrap-up. Is the 1997 film. Nietzsche, race eugenics in 12 Oscar Levy: A Nietzschean Vision the coming European in the need decadent Judeo- aristocratic conception they are they also into the arms Once the this self-descript Kill or Cure. Aims of the lecture. To examine the role of psychological medicine continuing the process of ‘doctoring the nation’ that we looked at in relation to eugenics. To examine the role of psychological medicine in defining the ‘normal’ family as a central feature of post-war life. Background. Eugenics, “a set of beliefs” and pseudoscientific practices” aimed at improving the genetic quality of humans”, was growing in power and influence in the early decades of the 20. th. ‘Degeneration may be defined as a gradual change of the structure in which the organism becomes adapted to . less. varied and . less. complex conditions of life … such as to leave the whole animal in a . Kill or Cure. Aims/Structure of Lecture. 1. Introduce eugenics as a prime example of ‘doctoring the nation’ between the 1880s and 1940s. 2. Demonstrate that this went beyond Nazi Germany. 3. Examine the reasons for the rise of this mode of ‘doctoring the nation’. Dec. 23, 1869. following the publication of Galton’s . Hereditary Genius. (1869). Dec. 23. Down. Beckenham. Kent, S.E.. My dear Galton,. I . have only read about 50 pages of your book (to the Judges), but I must exhale myself, else something will go wrong in my inside. I do not think I ever in all my life read anything more interesting and . Eugenics -- the study of human racial progress through selective breeding -- frequently invokes images of social engineering, virulent racism, immigrant persecution, and Nazi genocide, but Vermont\'s little known adventure in eugenics shows the inherent adaptability of eugenics theory and methods to parochial social justice. Beginning with genealogies of Vermont\'s rural poor in the 1920s, and concluding in the 1930s with an exposé of ethnic prejudice in Vermont\'s largest city, this story of the Eugenics Survey of Vermont explores the scope, limits, and changing interpretations of eugenics in America and offers a new approach to the history of progressive politics and social reform in New England. Inspired and directed by Zoology Professor Henry F. Perkins, the survey, through social research, political agitation, and education campaigns, infused eugenic agendas into progressive programs for child welfare, mental health, and rural community development. Breeding Better Vermonters examines social, ethnic, and religious tensions and reveals how population studies, theories of human heredity, and a rhetoric of altruism became subtle, yet powerful tools of social control and exclusion in a state whose motto was freedom and unity. In the late 1910s Dr. Harry J. Haiselden, a prominent Chicago surgeon, electrified the nation by allowing the deaths of at least six infants he diagnosed as defectives. He displayed the dying infants to journalists, wrote about them for the Hearst newspapers, and starred in a feature filmabout his crusade. Prominent Americans from Clarence Darrow to Helen Keller rallied to his support. Martin Pernick tells this captivating story--uncovering forgotten sources and long-lost motion pictures--in order to show how efforts to improve human heredity (eugenics) became linked with mercykilling, as well as with race, class, gender and ethnicity. It documents the impact of cultural values on science along with the way scientific claims of objectivity shape modern culture. While focused on early 20th century America, The Black Stork traces these issues from antiquity to the rise ofNazism, and to the Baby Doe, assisted suicide and human genome initiative debates of today. As the Eugenics movement swept through the United States and especially Virginia, the University of Virginia became a hotspot of eugenical research and teaching. A cohort of biologists at UVA had wi