The use of Eugenics is intriguing and different from other scientific theories about humanity. Biological Determinism is “the idea that most human characteristic, physical and mental are determined at conception by hereditary factors passed from parent to offspring (3).” Biological Determinism is pertinent to what are seen as “negative” characteristics. The physical idiosyncrasy includes “cleft palate, clubfoot, dwarfism, and gigantism.” Psychological oddities comprise of “criminality, feeblemindedness, pauperism, shiftlessness, promiscuity, bipolar disorder, and hyperactivity (3).” In the 1920s and 1930s the United States and Germany instituted sterilization laws, that were aimed on people who were believed to be genetically unfit in
