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Journal articles on the topic "Eugenics – United States"

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Kamrat-Lang, Debora. "Healing Society: Medical Language in American Eugenics." Science in Context 8, no. 1 (1995): 175–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0269889700001940.

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The ArgumentAmerican eugenics developed out of a cultural tradition independent of medicine. However, the eugenicist Harry Hamilton Laughlin and some legal experts involved in eugenic practice in the United States used medical language in discussing and evaluating enforced eugenic sterilizations. They built on medicine as a model for healing, while at the same time playing down medicine's concern with its traditional client: the individual patient. Laughlin's attitude toward medicine was ambivalent because he wanted expert eugenicists, rather than medical experts, to control eugenic practice. In contrast, legal experts saw eugenics as an integral part of medicine, though one expert challenged basing the judicial system on eugenically minded medicine. All in all, the medicalization of American eugenics involved expanding the scope of medicine to include the mutilation of individuals for the benefit of society. The judicial system was medicalized in that an expanded medicine became the basis of legislation in the thirty states that permitted eugenic sterilizations
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Otsubo, Sumiko, and James R. Bartholomew. "Eugenics in Japan: Some Ironies of Modernity, 1883–1945." Science in Context 11, no. 3-4 (1998): 545–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0269889700003203.

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The ArgumentJapanese eugenic discourse and institution building contrast sharply with comparable movements elsewhere. As a social-intellectual phenomenon, Anglo- American eugenics considered the Japanese racially inferior to Western peoples; yet eugenic ideals and policies achieved a remarkable popularity in Japan. Most of mainstream Japanese genetics was derived from orthodox Mendelian roots in Germany and (to a lesser degree) the United States. But French-style Lamarckian notions of the inheritability of acquired characters held surprising popularity among enthusiasts of eugenics. Japanese eugenicists could condemn the actions of foreign eugenicists like Charles Davenport in the United States for their efforts to forbid Japanese immigration in the 1920s, yet appeal to these same eugenicists as a source of legitimacy in Japan.These paradoxes can partly be explained against a background of relative isolation in a period of profound social change. Few Japanese eugenicists had close personal contact with foreign eugenicists, and most of their knowledge was acquired through reading rather than direct exposure. The eugenic ideal of ethnic purity was attractive to a society long accustomed to monoracial self-imagery. The need to defend national independence in an era of high imperialism seemed to require the most up-to-date policies and ideas. And Japan's own acquisition of an overseas empire seemed to demand a population management philosophy ostensibly based on scientific principles. These and other forces supported the implementation of eugenic policies and prescriptions among the Japanese people in the first half of the twentieth century.
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Hubbard, Ruth. "Eugenics and Prenatal Testing." International Journal of Health Services 16, no. 2 (April 1986): 227–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/1yke-php6-h69a-yrkv.

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Prejudices against people with disabilities, pool people, and immigrants during the nineteenth century generated a science of “race improvement” called eugenics. In the United States, a number of eugenic measures were enacted early in this century, but it was in Nazi Germany that eugenics flourished under the name of racial hygiene (Rassenhygiene). In the guise of furthering the health of the German people, German scientists and physicians initially designed programs of sterilization. Next came euthanasia and finally mass extermination of “lives not worth living.” Remembering this history, many German women oppose the new technical developments in prenatal diagnosis because they see them as yet another way to specify what kinds of people are and are not fit to inhabit the world. This paper tries to place the new technologies in the context of eugenics and to point out some of the ways in which the new, supposedly liberating, choices in fact limit women's control over our lives.
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Stern, Alexandra Minna. "Eugenics, sterilization, and historical memory in the United States." História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos 23, suppl 1 (December 2016): 195–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0104-59702016000500011.

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Abstract From the 1920s to the 1950s, California sterilized approximately 20,000 people in state homes and hospitals based on a eugenic law that authorized medical superintendents to perform reproductive surgeries on patients deemed unfit and “suffering from a mental affliction likely to be inherited.” Working with a unique resource – a dataset created from 19,000 sterilization recommendations – my team and I have reconstructed patterns and experiences of institutionalization of sterilizations. This article presents several of our important initial findings related to ethnic and gender bias in sterilization policies, and reflects on the relevance of the history for contemporary issues in genomics and social justice.
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Ramsden, Edmund. "Social Demography and Eugenics in the Interwar United States." Population and Development Review 29, no. 4 (December 2003): 547–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1728-4457.2003.00547.x.

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Shotwell, Mark. "The Misuse of Pedigree Analysis in the Eugenics Movement." American Biology Teacher 83, no. 2 (February 1, 2021): 80–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/abt.2021.83.2.80.

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Pedigree analysis has long been an essential tool in human genetics as well as a staple of genetics education. Students of genetics might be surprised to learn that human pedigrees were first popularized in the United States by proponents of eugenics, the pseudoscientific social movement aimed at improving the genetic quality of the human race. Notably, the influential eugenicist Charles B. Davenport employed pedigree charts to support his belief that not only were such medical conditions as Huntington disease and albinism inherited in a simple Mendelian fashion, but so too were such characteristics as alcoholism, criminality, and “feeblemindedness.” We now see the flaws in Davenport’s pedigree analysis, but at the time, it was the latest scientific advance. The misuse of pedigree analysis during the eugenics era may serve as a cautionary tale for those who are now harnessing the latest genetic technologies to solve complex problems.
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Stubblefield, Anna. "“Beyond the Pale”: Tainted Whiteness, Cognitive Disability, and Eugenic Sterilization." Hypatia 22, no. 2 (2007): 162–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2007.tb00987.x.

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The aim of the eugenics movement in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century was to prevent the degeneration of the white race. A central tactic of the movement was the involuntary sterilization of people labeled as feebleminded. An analysis of the practice of eugenic sterilization provides insight into how the concepts of gender, race, class, and dislability are fundamentally intertwined. I argue that in the early twentieth century, the concept of feeblemindedness came to operate as an umbrella concept that linked off-white ethnicity, poverty, and gendered conceptions of lack of moral character together and that feeblemindedness thus understood functioned as the signifier of tainted whiteness.
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Vigue, Charles L. "Eugenics and the Education of Women in the United States." Journal of Educational Administration and History 19, no. 2 (July 1987): 51–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0022062870190205.

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Weingart, Peter. "Eugenics — Medical or Social Science?" Science in Context 8, no. 1 (1995): 197–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0269889700001952.

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The ArgumentEugenics is the paradigmatic case of the conflict between biology and medicine over social influence. Commenting on as essay by Debora Kamrat–Lang(1995), the paper reconstructs the historical roots of eugenics as a form of preventive medicine. A comparision between the development of some crucial aspects of eugenics between Germany and the United States reveals that the prevalence of the value placed on the individual over hereditary health of a population ultimately determined the outcome of the conflict but collective concepts may be revived by new biological knowledge
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GONZALES, ANGELA, JUDY KERTÉSZ, and GABRIELLE TAYAC. "Eugenics as Indian Removal: Sociohistorical Processes and the De(con)struction of American Indians in the Southeast." Public Historian 29, no. 3 (January 1, 2007): 53–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/tph.2007.29.3.53.

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Although research on the history of the eugenics movement in the United States is legion, its impact on state policies that identified and defined American Indians has yet to be fully addressed. The exhibit, Our Lives: Contemporary Life and Identities (ongoing until September 21, 2014) at the National Museum of the American Indian provides a provocative vehicle for examining how eugenics-informed public policy during the first quarter of the twentieth century served to “remove” from official records Native peoples throughout the Southeast. One century after Indian Removal of the antebellum era, Native peoples in the American Southeast provide an important but often overlooked example of how racial policies, this time rooted in eugenics, effected a documentary erasure of Native peoples and communities.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Eugenics – United States"

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Williams, Cameron. "A Study of the United States Influence on German Eugenics." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3781.

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This thesis is a study of the influence and effects that the United States had upon Germany from the rise of eugenics to its fall following the end of World War II. There are three stages to this study. First, I examine the rise of eugenics in the United States from its inception to the end of World War I and the influence it had upon Germany. Then I examine the interwar era along with the popularization of eugenics within both countries before concluding with the Second World War and post war era. My thesis focuses on both the active and passive influences that the United States had upon German eugenics and racial hygiene in the twentieth century. This study uses a wide range of primary and secondary sources. Many of the authors are experts in their field while the visuals are a window into understanding how eugenics was spread to the public.
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Lavery, Colm Raymond. "Geography and eugenics in the United States and Britain, 1900-1950." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.707810.

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Eugenics has a complicated history. In the United States and Britain biologists, psychiatrists, anthropologists, political theorists and others were involved in eugenic discussions. But historians of eugenics have all but neglected to tell the geographer's story. This thesis discusses the role of four geographers: Robert DeCourcy Ward, Ellsworth Huntington, Stephen Sargent Visher and Herbert John Fleure. My main contention is that not only did these geographers play active roles in the eugenics movement, but that they used geographical theories and methodologies to bolster their eugenic ideology. Ward, as a leader of the immigration restriction movement in the United States, presented geographical solutions to eugenic problems; Huntington was a vocal advocate of understanding race through a geographical lens; Visher forwarded the claim that intelligence had a particular geography; and Fleure was interested in the history of race and migrations. These case studies serve as detailed examples of how the history of geography and the history of eugenics have intertwined in both Britain and the United States.
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Wunderlich, Jo (Jo Parks). "Echoes of Eugenics : Roe v Wade." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279248/.

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Traces the inter-related histories of the eugenics movement and birth control, with an emphasis on abortion. Discusses Sarah Weddington's arguments and the Supreme Court's ruling in Roe v Wade. Straws the eugenic influences in the case and asserts that these influences caused the decision to be less than decisive.
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Guest, Lacey. ""A Special Relationship of Peculiar Intimacy": Marriage Education in the United States, 1920s-1960s." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23808.

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Marriage education emerged in universities across the United States in the 1920s as a response to a perceived “marriage crisis.” Over the next several decades, marriage educators shaped marriage course content to reflect student interests and maintain relevance to students’ lives. With the goal of saving marriage from the abstract forces of modernity, faculty initially targeted a specific demographic: white, middle-class, college students. This thesis chronicles the trajectory of marriage education as it shifted from a mechanism of positive eugenics to a vehicle by which black students in the South could access rights of citizenship in the post-WWII period. What began as a method of civic exclusion with roots in the eugenic movement transformed into a means through which Southern black citizens asserted their rights to education, marriage, sexuality, and family. This democratization of education for citizenship reflected the diverse uses of marriage education from the 1920s through the 1960s.
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Stalvey, Marissa Leigh Slaughter. "Love is Not Blind: Eugenics, Blindness, and Marriage in the United States, 1840-1940." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1395944636.

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Brabble, Jessica Marie. "Save the Babies: Progressive Women and the Fight for Child Welfare in the United States, 1912-1929." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/104021.

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This project examines two organizations--the Better Babies Bureau and the Children's Bureau--created by Progessive women in the early twentieth century to combat high infant mortality rates, improve prenatal and postnatal care, and better child welfare. The Better Babies Bureau, founded in 1913 by journalists from the Woman's Home Companion magazine, and the Children's Bureau, founded as a federal agency in 1912, used similar campaigns to raise awareness of these child welfare problems in the early 1900s; where they differed, however, is in their ultimate goals. The Children's Bureau sought to improve long-term medical care and infant mortality rates for women regardless of race or socioeconomic status; I analyze how they worked directly with midwives and health officials to provide better care for mothers and children. The Better Babies Bureau, in comparison, catered specifically to white women through prize-based contests and eugenics rhetoric. Through their better baby contests, they promoted the idea that disabilities and defects should be eliminated in children in order to create a better future. By the late 1910s, these two organizations were utilizing nationwide campaigns to appeal to mothers through either consumerism or health conferences. I argue that although the Better Babies Bureau made a greater cultural impact, the Children's Bureau made a longer lasting—and farther reaching—impact on infant mortality rates by making healthcare more accessible for both rural and urban women.
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In the early twentieth century, many Americans became concerned with the number of children dying before age one. This thesis examines two different organizations that were created in an attempt to reduce these infant mortality rates, improve prenatal and postnatal care, and better child welfare. These two organizations, the Children's Bureau and the Better Babies Bureau, were created and run by Progressive women who took vastly different approaches to raising awareness of these problems. The Children's Bureau worked directly with health and government officials to improve child welfare and healthcare. Meanwhile, the Better Babies Bureau utilized contests to convince mothers that defects and disabilities needed to be eliminated in their children. In this thesis, I argue that the Children's Bureau was ultimately far more effective by appealing to a wider audience, creating a plan for long-term medical care, and improving access to prenatal and postnatal care for women.
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Rust, Jennifer. "Propagating Perfection: Eugenic Sterilization at the Utah State Training School, 1935 - 1974." DigitalCommons@USU, 2017. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/5338.

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Compulsory sterilization as a tool of eugenics occurred in the United States from before the U.S. Supreme Court upheld its’ constitutionality in 1927 until the early 1970s. Initial justification for removing a person’s ability to procreate was rooted in hereditarian assertions that disability was transmitted from parent to offspring, and incorporated an economic argument that individuals with disabilities placed a financial burden on the state for care. Due to scientific deconstruction of the hereditarian argument, rationalization for sterilization evolved into an anxiety over the perceived inability of the disabled to parent. The state of Utah sterilized 738 individuals with intellectual disabilities from 1935 to 1974. This paper explores how Utah was similar to other states in terms of implementing compulsory sterilization through the establishment of the Utah State Training School and the philosophy of its leadership team.
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Hart, Bradley William. "British, German, and American eugenicists in transnational context, c. 1900-1939." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/283886.

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Fulkerson, Dikuua Kelly Jo. "[Un]informed Consent: Eugenics, Forced Sterilization and Medical Violence in the Jim Crow United States and Apartheid Southern Africa." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1560981650973904.

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Fair, Alexandra Kathryn. "“THE PEOPLE WHO NEED US READ BETWEEN THE LINES”: THE FACES OF EUGENIC IDEOLOGY IN THE POST-WWII UNITED STATES." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1556874590527973.

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Books on the topic "Eugenics – United States"

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Largent, Mark A. Breeding contempt: The history of coerced sterilization in the United States. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 2008.

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Dowbiggin, Ian Robert. Keeping America sane: Psychiatry and eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880-1940. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003.

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Dowbiggin, Ian Robert. Keeping America sane: Psychiatry and eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880-1940. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press, 1997.

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Dowbiggin, Ian Robert. Keeping America sane: Psychiatry and eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880-1940. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press, 1997.

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Nourse, Victoria F. In reckless hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the near triumph of American eugenics. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2008.

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Weiss, Sheila Faith. Race hygiene and national efficiency: The eugenics of Wilhelm Schallmayer. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

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Better for all the world: The secret history of forced sterilization and America's quest for racial purity. New York: Knopf, 2006.

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Bruinius, Harry. Better for all the world: The secret history of forced sterilization and America's quest for racial purity. New York: Vintage Books, 2007.

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Bruinius, Harry. Better for all the world: The secret history of forced sterilization and America's quest for racial purity. New York: Vintage Books, 2007.

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Ordover, Nancy. American eugenics: Race, queer anatomy, and the science of nationalism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.

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Book chapters on the topic "Eugenics – United States"

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Reilly, Philip R. "Eugenic Sterilization in the United States." In Genetics and the Law III, 227–48. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4952-5_17.

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Rubenfeld, Sheldon, and Daniel P. Sulmasy. "Physician-Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, and Bioethics in Nazi and Contemporary Cinema." In The International Library of Bioethics, 173–208. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-01987-6_10.

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AbstractToday, physician-assisted suicide and/or euthanasia are legal in several European countries, Canada, several jurisdictions in the United States and Australia, and may soon become legal in many more jurisdictions. While traditional Hippocratic and religious medical ethics have long opposed these practices, contemporary culture and politics have slowly weakened opposition to physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. Our chapter examines how assisted suicide and euthanasia have been presented in cinema, one of the most powerful influences on culture, by Nazi propagandists during the German Third Reich and by Western filmmakers since the end of World War II.Almost all contemporary films about assisted suicide and euthanasia, including six winners of Academy Awards, promote these practices as did Ich klage an (I Accuse) (1941), the best and archetypal Nazi feature film about euthanasia. The bioethical justifications of assisted suicide or euthanasia in both Ich klage an and contemporary films are strikingly similar: showing mercy; avoiding fear and/or disgust; equating loss of capability with loss of a reason to live; enabling self-determination and the right-to-die; conflating voluntary with involuntary and nonvoluntary euthanasia; and casting opposition as out-of-date traditionalism. Economics and eugenics, two powerful arguments for euthanasia during the Third Reich, are not highlighted in Ich klage an and are only obliquely mentioned in contemporary cinema. One dramatic difference in the cinema of the two periods is the prominence of medical professionals in Ich klage an and their conspicuous absence in contemporary films about assisted suicide and euthanasia. A discussion of the medical ethos of the two time periods reveals how cinema both reflects and influences the growing acceptance of assisted suicide and euthanasia.
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Heinemann, Isabel. "Preserving the Family and the Nation: Eugenic Masculinity Concepts, Expert Intervention, and the American Family in the United States, 1900–1960." In Masculinities and the Nation in the Modern World, 71–92. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137536105_5.

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O’Brien, Gerald. "A Brief History of Eugenic Control." In Eugenics, Genetics, and Disability in Historical and Contemporary Perspective, 14—C2.N3. Oxford University PressNew York, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197611234.003.0003.

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Abstract This chapter provides a concise history of eugenics and eugenic polices within the United States, as well as the later German policies under the Nazis. Much has been written about the eugenic alarm period (1900–1925), and this chapter attempts to provide a brief overview of the more important aspects of the period. Importantly, while many tend to exploit eugenics for certain political or ideological ends, interest in eugenics during the alarm period cut across the sociopolitical landscape. The specific eugenic policies (sterilization, immigration control, institutionalization, etc.) enacted in the United States are discussed, along with the movement’s focus on persons with feeble-mindedness. Finally, the relationship between policies in the United States and Nazi Germany will be explored, along with the impact of Nazi eugenic policies.
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Merchant, Emily Klancher. "Family Planning." In Building the Population Bomb, 40–65. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197558942.003.0003.

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Chapter 2 documents the establishment of demography, the social science of human population dynamics, in the United States during the 1930s. It contends that this interdisciplinary field was able to build an institutional structure because of support from eugenicist Frederick Osborn, who saw in demography an ally for the creation of a postracial democratic version of eugenics. Osborn’s new brand of eugenics emphasized birth control rather than sterilization and worked through the private sector rather than the public sector. He fused birth control advocacy with eugenics in a strategy he termed “family planning,” which signaled reproductive autonomy in the context of social control. Osborn secured patronage for demography from the Milbank Memorial Fund and the Carnegie Corporation, and an audience for demographic research in the New Deal welfare state. He leveraged his influence to focus demography’s research program on producing support for his family planning–based eugenic project.
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Daar, Judith. "The High Cost of Assisted Reproduction." In The New Eugenics. Yale University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300137156.003.0003.

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This chapter explores how cost as a barrier to ART access is more complex than just the high price of medical goods and services transacted in the pursuit of parenthood. Reportedly, assisted reproduction generates annual revenues of over $4 billion in the United States, much of it paid out-of-pocket by patients who are underinsured for this aspect of health care. At first blush, it is clear that the synergy between high-priced treatments and low levels of reimbursement produces a world of stratified reproduction in which wealth status determines entry into the procreative marketplace. A deeper analysis does not refute this impression, but also reveals that socioeconomics alone do not fully explain how ART funding works to suppress reproduction by certain “lower resource” individuals.
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Fanning, Bryan. "Social engineering versus democracy." In Three Roads to the Welfare State, 135–60. Policy Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447360322.003.0007.

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This chapter highlights how the power of experts and technocrats — those who saw themselves as best qualified to govern — continued to vie with a commitment to government by democratic means. The discussion opens with the emergence of feminist advocacy of birth control and contraception in the late nineteenth century alongside campaigns for the rights to vote for women. By then, preoccupations with reducing the birth rate were joined by obsessions with eugenics among some influential social reformers in Britain, in several European countries, and in the United States. The underlying presumption of eugenics was that there were significant inheritable differences between individuals and that if undesirables could be prevented from having children, then social problems associated with these could be ameliorated. Champions of eugenic social engineering variously advocated contraception, restrictions on the rights of the unfit to marry and the sterilisation of the unfit. In Britain and in other democratic countries, eugenics came to be intellectually challenged by arguments that social problems could be better explained in terms of environmental factors rather than by biological ones.
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Daar, Judith. "Race and Ethnicity as Barriers to ART Access." In The New Eugenics. Yale University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300137156.003.0004.

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This chapter analyzes the racialization of infertility care in the United States, and seeks to understand why ART stratifies along race and ethnic lines. Researchers and scholars have proposed several theories, including lower income levels and access to insurance in minority populations, social factors that make women of color less likely to seek treatment for infertility, historic factors that give rise to a continuing aura of mistrust in the doctor–patient relationship, and express and implied discrimination by doctors who view minority populations as less deserving of parenthood than white patients. The chapter shows how these new eugenics, like the old eugenics, can persist only so long as political power structures support and advance their agenda.
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Rosemblatt, Karin Alejandra. "Mexican Indigenismo and the International Fraternity of Science." In Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910-1950, 29–59. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469636405.003.0002.

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Mexican racial science developed in close relation to foreign scholars and institutions including Corrado Gini of Italy, a proponent of Latin eugenics, Franz Boas, the Carnegie Institution in Washington, the international eugenics movement, and the Pan-American child welfare movement. Along with the mobilization of rural peoples during the Mexican Revolution, growing international interest in Mexico and the international eugenics movement galvanized Mexican indigenismo, the state-sponsored movement championing the nation’s indigenous heritage. This chapter focuses on Manuel Gamio, who founded Mexico’s Dirección de Antropología and worked in the powerful Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP). Gamio conveyed Mexican social science abroad and foreign social science to Mexico. He attempted to create a social science that was both “Mexican” and modern, but found it hard to delineate a modernity that could accommodate Mexico’s demographic heterogeneity. Gamio creatively reconciled Mexico’s demographic characteristics with liberal universalism and scientific rationality, yet still suffered the intellectual imperialism and condescension of his U.S. counterparts.
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O’Brien, Gerald. "Eugenics and Persons with Disabilities." In Eugenics, Genetics, and Disability in Historical and Contemporary Perspective, 31—C3.N2. Oxford University PressNew York, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197611234.003.0004.

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Abstract Most writing on the eugenic movement in the United States concentrates on those labeled as “feeble-minded,” or “morons.” This chapter considers the impact of the movement in relation to those with disabilities in general, and why certain categories of those labeled as disabled were or were not viewed as proper targets of restrictive eugenic policies. Specific focus includes those thought to be insane, as well as persons with epilepsy and individuals with sensory disabilities (blind and deaf). The chapter highlights not only why those with a moron diagnosis were the principal targets of eugenicists, but also how this diagnosis was exploited by eugenicists to pull ancillary groups (e.g., those living in poverty, single women with children) into the sphere of eugenic control.
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Conference papers on the topic "Eugenics – United States"

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Eryücel, Ertuğrul. "A Comparative Analysis on Policy Making in Western Countries and Turkey in the Context of Eugenics." In International Conference on Eurasian Economies. Eurasian Economists Association, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.36880/c08.01847.

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The word eugenics was coined in 1883 by the English scientist Francis Galton, who took the word from a Greek root meaning “good in birth” or “noble in heredity”. Eugenics aimed to assist states in implementing negative or positive policies which would improve the quality of the national breed. The intensive applications of eugenic policies coincide between two World Wars. İn the decades between 1905 and 1945, eugenics politics implemented in more than thirty countries. The method of this study is based on a literature survey on the sources of the eugenic subject. The sources of the data are documents such as books, articles, journals, theses, projects, research reports about the politics and legal regulations of the countries on the family, population, sport, health and body. This study comparatively examines eugenic policy-making in Turkey and in Western countries: Britain, United States, France, Germany (1905-1945). This study aims to discuss the relation of eugenic politics in countries with nation building process, ethnic nationalism, and racism. This is a basic claim that the eugenic practices in Turkey contain more positive measures and that there is no racial-ethnic content of eugenics in Turkey.
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