Eugenics Eugenics is still unfamiliar to most people in today’s world but was widely known during the 1800 to 1945 period (Wikler, 1999). However, in Europe the word eugenics started to associate with the idea of racial hygiene. This concept was most likely to be found in the Nordic states of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden that started instituting compulsory sterilization programme from 1926 (Barnett, 2004). Francis Dalton a cousin of Darwin invented the term eugenics and the theories of human improvement. He launched a movement to improve the human race or at least try and stop its recognizable decline through selective breeding (Wikler, 1999). However, people just know eugenics to be a bad science and being unethical in their
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Seeing the British success at health prospects before the turn of the century. American eugenic organizations took a particular interest in these prospects and started to work towards a Fitter Families slogan. The content of the eugenics programme varied as some eugenicist tended to agree that the human race is in a decline but they differed over both cause and its solutions (Wikler, 1999). Eugenics always had a bad name due to the idealistic concepts of the Nazi race hygiene project or into an American sterilization assault against the racially inferior (Crook, 2008). Recent research has shown that eugenics is much more colorful than it was thought during the late ninetieth century due to the biological science and more enlightened social ideas. Geneticists also have been very strong supporters of eugenics as a way of scientifically improving the gene quality of the human race but in a moral way. Eugenics has been offering a perspective on the practices of our era in which the idea of using since of heredity to reshape the society to make it a better place (Wikler,
Seeing the British success at health prospects before the turn of the century. American eugenic organizations took a particular interest in these prospects and started to work towards a Fitter Families slogan. The content of the eugenics programme varied as some eugenicist tended to agree that the human race is in a decline but they differed over both cause and its solutions (Wikler, 1999). Eugenics always had a bad name due to the idealistic concepts of the Nazi race hygiene project or into an American sterilization assault against the racially inferior (Crook, 2008). Recent research has shown that eugenics is much more colorful than it was thought during the late ninetieth century due to the biological science and more enlightened social ideas. Geneticists also have been very strong supporters of eugenics as a way of scientifically improving the gene quality of the human race but in a moral way. Eugenics has been offering a perspective on the practices of our era in which the idea of using since of heredity to reshape the society to make it a better place (Wikler,