Facing Eugenics
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Facing Eugenics
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Author : Erika Dyck
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2013-01-01
Facing Eugenics written by Erika Dyck and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-01 with Medical categories.
Facing Eugenics is a social history of sexual sterilization operations in twentieth-century Canada. Looking at real-life experiences of men and women who, either coercively or voluntarily, participated in the largest legal eugenics program in Canada, it considers the impact of successive legal policies and medical practices on shaping our understanding of contemporary reproductive rights. The book also provides deep insights into the broader implications of medical experimentation, institutionalization, and health care in North America. Erika Dyck uses a range of historical evidence, including medical files, court testimony, and personal records to place mental health and intelligence at the centre of discussions regarding reproductive fitness. Examining acts of resistance alongside heavy-handed decisions to sterilize people considered unfit, Facing Eugenics illuminates how reproductive rights fit into a broader discussion of what constitutes civil liberties, modern feminism, and contemporary psychiatric survivor and disability activism.
Facing Eugenics
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Author : Erika Dyck
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2013-12-31
Facing Eugenics written by Erika Dyck and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-31 with Medical categories.
Facing Eugenics is a social history of sexual sterilization operations in twentieth-century Canada. Looking at real-life experiences of men and women who, either coercively or voluntarily, participated in the largest legal eugenics program in Canada, it considers the impact of successive legal policies and medical practices on shaping our understanding of contemporary reproductive rights. The book also provides deep insights into the broader implications of medical experimentation, institutionalization, and health care in North America. Erika Dyck uses a range of historical evidence, including medical files, court testimony, and personal records to place mental health and intelligence at the centre of discussions regarding reproductive fitness. Examining acts of resistance alongside heavy-handed decisions to sterilize people considered “unfit,” Facing Eugenics illuminates how reproductive rights fit into a broader discussion of what constitutes civil liberties, modern feminism, and contemporary psychiatric survivor and disability activism.
Race And Membership In American History
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Author : Facing History and Ourselves
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-06-05
Race And Membership In American History written by Facing History and Ourselves and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-05 with categories.
This resource on the Eugenics movement of the early 1900s will deepen students' understanding of the history of racism in the United States.
Demography And Degeneration
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Author : Richard A. Soloway
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2014-02-01
Demography And Degeneration written by Richard A. Soloway and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-01 with History categories.
Richard Soloway offers a compelling and authoritative study of the relationship of the eugenics movement to the dramatic decline in the birthrate and family size in twentieth-century Britain. Working in a tradition of hereditarian determinism which held fast to the premise that "like tends to beget like," eugenicists developed and promoted a theory of biosocial engineering through selective reproduction. Soloway shows that the appeal of eugenics to the middle and upper classes of British society was closely linked to recurring concerns about the relentless drop in fertility and the rapid spread of birth control practices from the 1870s to World War II. Demography and Degeneration considers how differing scientific and pseudoscientific theories of biological inheritance became popularized and enmeshed in the prolonged, often contentious national debate about "race suicide" and "the dwindling family." Demographic statistics demonstrated that birthrates were declining among the better-educated, most successful classes while they remained high for the poorest, least-educated portion of the population. For many people steeped in the ideas of social Darwinism, eugenicist theories made this decline all the more alarming: they feared that falling birthrates among the "better" classes signfied a racial decline and degeneration that might prevent Britain from successfully negotiating the myriad competive challenges facing the nation in the twentieth century. Although the organized eugenics movement remained small and elitist throughout most of its history, this study demonstrates how pervasive eugenic assumptions were in the middle and upper reaches of British society, at least until World War II. It also traces the important role of eugenics in the emergence of the modern family planning movement and the formulation of population policies in the interwar years.
Race And Membership In American History The Eugenics Movement
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Author : Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Race And Membership In American History The Eugenics Movement written by Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with categories.
In The Public Good
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Author : C. Elizabeth Koester
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2021-09-15
In The Public Good written by C. Elizabeth Koester and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-15 with History categories.
In the early twentieth century, the eugenics movement won many supporters with its promise that social ills such as venereal disease, alcoholism, and so-called feeble-mindedness, along with many other conditions, could be eliminated by selective human breeding and other measures. The provinces of Alberta and British Columbia passed legislation requiring that certain “unfit” individuals undergo reproductive sterilization. Ontario, being home to many leading proponents of eugenics, came close to doing the same. In the Public Good examines three legal processes that were used to advance eugenic ideas in Ontario between 1910 and 1938: legislative bills, provincial royal commissions, and the criminal trial of a young woman accused of distributing birth control information. Taken together, they reveal who in the province supported these ideas, how they were understood in relation to the public good, and how they were debated. Elizabeth Koester shows the ways in which the law was used both to promote and to deflect eugenics, and how the concept of the public good was used by supporters to add power to their cause. With eugenic thinking finding new footholds in the possibilities offered by reproductive technologies, proposals to link welfare entitlement to “voluntary” sterilization, and concerns about immigration, In the Public Good adds depth to our understanding. Its exploration of the historical relationship between eugenics and law in Ontario prepares us to face the implications of “newgenics” today.
The New Eugenics
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Author : Conrad B. Quintyn Ph.D.
language : en
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Release Date : 2020-12-17
The New Eugenics written by Conrad B. Quintyn Ph.D. and has been published by Archway Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-17 with Science categories.
The specter of early twentieth-century eugenics—with its goal of preventing the “unfit” from reproducing through forced sterilization—still haunts us in this era of genetic engineering. Conrad B. Quintyn, an associate professor of biological anthropology at Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, calls this the new eugenics era because geneticists have begun to explore ways to prevent and repair defective genes in all humans. In this book, he considers whether genetic engineering will exacerbate social injustices and/or lead to a public safety issue. For instance, in 2012, virologists in the U.S. and the Netherlands genetically engineered avian (bird) flu to be more transmissible between mammals. These scientists argued that virus transmission between mammals enables us to make vaccines to prevent pandemics. They never considered what would happen if the virus accidentally escaped the laboratory. Meanwhile, some scientists are experimenting with “designer babies,” altering genes to remove diseases and even programming certain traits. Join the author as he considers whether scientists are playing God as well as the risks we face by altering genetics in The New Eugenics.
Eugenics If Science Evolves To Brutality Political Ideologies Racial Hygiene And Eugenics
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Author : GÜLHAN KARADAĞ AĞKURT
language : en
Publisher: GÜLHAN KARADAĞ AĞKURT
Release Date : 2020-05-04
Eugenics If Science Evolves To Brutality Political Ideologies Racial Hygiene And Eugenics written by GÜLHAN KARADAĞ AĞKURT and has been published by GÜLHAN KARADAĞ AĞKURT this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-04 with Fiction categories.
The eugenic theory, which approaches the natural thing with antipathy, claims that the best and pure gene combinations will be achieved by transforming the spontaneous natural life on earth with the hand of the man who substitutes himself for God. The origin of eugenic history is based on an immoral basis, such as the preservation of healthy and robust babies and the killing of unhealthy and weak babies in ancient Greeks and Spartans. The idea of eugenics spread rapidly all over the world in the middle of the 20th century, especially in the United States, Brazil, England, Australia, Canada, Germany, Norway, Japan, China, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, France and Switzerland, as in the Ancient Spartans. Considering the criteria such as the development and health of babies, it started to spread with a kind of labeling technique. Although the Jewish genocide, written in the pages of history with shame, remains a dirty stain in Germany's past, it is seen that other states are not completely alien to these immoral "racial hygiene activities".
Race And Membership In American History
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Race And Membership In American History written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Eugenics categories.
Race and Membership in American History: The Eugenics Movement focuses on a time in the early 1900's when many people believed that some "races," classes, and individuals were superior to others. They used a new branch of scientific inquiry known as eugenics to justify their prejudices and advocate programs and policies aimed at solving the nation's problems by ridding society of "inferior racial traits."
A New Face Of Eugenics
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
A New Face Of Eugenics written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Birth control categories.