Compulsory education

welfare burden” that poor women posed on the government. We spoke in class about how the reproductive rights of some people were valued above others and how unfair that is. Non-white women and women with disabilities were some of the major targets of compulsory sterilization, due to the practice of eugenics, race bias, class bias, and disability bias on the parts of the doctors involved. Fortunately the court case Skinner v. Oklahoma led to the drastic decrease of the practice of sterilization,…

Carrie Buck was an institutionalized patient at the State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble Minded. The superintendent of her mental institution was ordered to perform a salpingectomy in her in order to make her sterile. Carrie challenged the local statute that allowed for the sterilization of the feeble minded and filed a suit against her superintendent. Buck argued that her rights as a U.S. citizen were being infringed upon, specifically her Fourteenth Amendment rights. The local statue was…

How does a nurse do this when faced with compulsory sterilization and abiding by their patient’s autonomy? In some instances, nurses do as “they’re told” to avoid losing their job. In the case of forced sterilization against a patients will, the nurse will struggle for ethical dilemmas. There have…

In the summer of 1978, ten women of Mexican origin sued Doctor James Quilligan and the Los Angeles County Hospital for a violation of their civil and constitutional rights by forcible sterilization. These women claimed that they were either coerced into signing the sterilization consent forms, signed them under duress, could not read the English consent forms, or were not given any consent forms at all. Representatives Antonia Hernandez and Charles Nabarrete argued that the plaintiffs were…

Eugenics In America In 1993, A March of Dimes poll found that 11% of parents in America said they would abort a fetus who was predisposed to obesity. 4 out of 5 said they would abort a fetus who would have a disability, and 43% said they would use genetic modification if available to them for appearance enhancement (Laney). From the 1900’s to even today, the Eugenics movement was one of the most controversial movements in the United States. Eugenics is the study of or belief that by selective…

The eugenics movement was time period that was intended to improve the genetic structure of humans. Eugenicists encouraged the selective breeding of the most “fit” humans to reach a perfect human race. Francis Galton established the philosophy of the eugenics movement in the 1880’s. Eugenicists used “scientific research” to trick people into thinking that what they were saying was true, even though the research was fake. Many wealthy, white Americans and Europeans supported the movement because…

In the beginning of the 20th century, the human mind was much more inclined to search for scientific answers to society’s problems by perfecting the human race by applying the laws of genetic heredity. In 1883, Sir Francis Galton, a respected British scientist, first used the term Eugenics, “the study of all agencies under human control which can improve or impair the racial quality of future generations.” He believed that the human race could help direct its future by selectively breeding…

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…

Eugenics is a subject most people have never heard of. And those who do know don’t believe it is still practiced. Eugenics isn’t something new. This practice has been around for thousands of years. Everywhere from Greece, Germany, Scotland, and even the United States. What exactly is Eugenics? Eugenics is the practice of selective breeding and termination of other races or categorized undesirable people. Eugenics is a manmade selective process designed to speed up the process of natural…

How to Sterilize and Perform Intravenous Injection While acting as a medic in the apocalyptic environment that has been presented, the other medics and I will have to perform many various basic medical procedures upon the patients we receive. Seeing as the ability to properly perform these techniques is detrimental to the survival of the society, research is required to learn the safe an correct way to execute them. In this essay I will be synthesizing the information I have gathered from…