The major influence of Sir Francis Galton, originated the term “eugenics,” in 1883 after reading his cousin, Charles Darwin’s book, “The Origin of Species” (Forrest, 1974). Eugenics, is the “science” of improving the gene pool of a human population through controlling breeding to promote desirable traits and breed out undesirable traits. Sir Francis Galton committed most his research to discovering the differences of human populations by collecting any sort of differences data among each human. Within the data was the various characteristics of the overall complexity of mental features to the significance of fingerprints. Throughout his years of study, he began to focus his research on the human ability in relations to nature over nurture,
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The United States Department of State mailed the invitation to this event personally to reinforce American dominance. The society’s honorary president, Alexander Graham Bell presented the matters of eugenics with the support of Leonard Darwin in the encouragement of the families defined as “well-endowed,” and the discouragement of the families considered as “ill-endowed,” which lead to the belief most terrifying of all, “the elimination of the unfit” (Black, 2003). The Third International Eugenics Conference Congress was also held in the American Museum of Natural History in 1932. This was the first congress that Leonard Darwin was not able to attend, although he made sure the information he had gathered was presented to the society by Ronald Fisher. The data presented stated that without the use of eugenics civilization would eventually collapse, which lead to the publication of, “A Decade of Progress in Eugenics.” After the third conference, the International Federation of Eugenics Organization was formed, and would be run by the Nazi Eugenicist, Ernst Rüdin (Black, …show more content…
To sterilize is defined as a process of creating an object free of bacteria or other living organism, through surgery to make a person or animal unable to produce offspring. In July of 1933, the Eugenics Board of North Carolina was organized with 5 rotating members, which lead to the sterilizations in the state four months later and would remain active until 1977. Roughly 5 decades of sterilizing occurred in an estimate of 7,600 individuals. The Board members’ positions were the Commissioner of Public Welfare, the Attorney General, the Secretary of State Board of Health, Superintendent of the Raleigh State Hospital, and another Superintendent of a State Hospital besides Raleigh. A major duty of all Board members included approving application for the four types of sterilization: for males, a vasectomy and castration, while for females, salpingectomy and ovariectomy (Kickler,
The United States Department of State mailed the invitation to this event personally to reinforce American dominance. The society’s honorary president, Alexander Graham Bell presented the matters of eugenics with the support of Leonard Darwin in the encouragement of the families defined as “well-endowed,” and the discouragement of the families considered as “ill-endowed,” which lead to the belief most terrifying of all, “the elimination of the unfit” (Black, 2003). The Third International Eugenics Conference Congress was also held in the American Museum of Natural History in 1932. This was the first congress that Leonard Darwin was not able to attend, although he made sure the information he had gathered was presented to the society by Ronald Fisher. The data presented stated that without the use of eugenics civilization would eventually collapse, which lead to the publication of, “A Decade of Progress in Eugenics.” After the third conference, the International Federation of Eugenics Organization was formed, and would be run by the Nazi Eugenicist, Ernst Rüdin (Black, …show more content…
To sterilize is defined as a process of creating an object free of bacteria or other living organism, through surgery to make a person or animal unable to produce offspring. In July of 1933, the Eugenics Board of North Carolina was organized with 5 rotating members, which lead to the sterilizations in the state four months later and would remain active until 1977. Roughly 5 decades of sterilizing occurred in an estimate of 7,600 individuals. The Board members’ positions were the Commissioner of Public Welfare, the Attorney General, the Secretary of State Board of Health, Superintendent of the Raleigh State Hospital, and another Superintendent of a State Hospital besides Raleigh. A major duty of all Board members included approving application for the four types of sterilization: for males, a vasectomy and castration, while for females, salpingectomy and ovariectomy (Kickler,