Eugenics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Eugenics is the study and practice of selective breeding applied to humans, with the aim of improving the species. Although its basic premise is scientifically sound -- that the same genetic laws app...
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Ultimately, 60,000 Americans were coercively sterilized — legally and extra-legally. Many never discovered the truth until decades later. Those who actively supported eugenics include America's most progressive figures: Woodrow Wilson, Margaret Sanger and Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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Boyce finally got that life in 1960, when he was 19. Eugenics was no longer politically acceptable in America, and Fernald started releasing people. The problem was, there weren't a lot of jobs around for alumni of a school for the feeble-minded.
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NHD Documentary on the Eugenics movement. Senior Division. 2007. Second revision. I placed third at the Florida state level.Following the theme "Triumph...
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Dr. Lombardo actually became interested in eugenics and sterilization issues in much the same way as Dr. Paul - as a doctoral student who found himself captivated by the tragic combination of law, morality and science that had led some of America's most respected institutions into the dark alleyway of selective breeding.
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War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race from Ethics & Medicine provided by Find Articles at BNET ... War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race Edwin Black New York: Four Wall Eight Windows, 2003 ISBN 1-56858-258-7, 550 PP., HARDCOVER, $27...
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The Eugenics movement won substantial recognition in early 20th century America. By 1941, 33 US states had endorsed sterilization policies. The movement was social, political, and scientific. It reflected the fears of many whites that their once-great nation was threatened by demographic and economic change.
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Popularity of eugenics and social Darwinism continued in the USA during WWII. In 1942, the American Journal of Psychiatry published a "debate" on the ethics of killing children with severe disabilities. The following was written by Foster Kennedy:
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The philosopher George Santayana said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." This adage is appropriate to our current rush into the "gene age," which has striking parallels to the eugenics movement of the early decades of the 20th century. ... Eugenics was, quite literally, an effort to breed...
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