Compulsory sterilization

and the use of sterilization would save money. They believed that charity and welfare only treated the symptoms; eugenics sought to eliminate the disease. The following traits were seen as deteriorating to the gene pool to which the eugenicists were determined to eradicate: poverty, feeble-mindedness,…

Social Darwinism and the Eugenics Movement Social Darwinism is the belief of natural selection that applies to social organizations and to individuals in society. The ones who were better suited would be well developed while those that were poorly adapted would suffer, this was Social Darwinism. Social Darwinism was created in the late nineteenth century. It was a highly developed movement that was involved with the theory of evolution. However, the theory was mainly based from the work of…

often founded and funded by rich caucasian males, became a matter of legislature through the passing of immigration restriction, marriage and sterilization laws. Reaching it’s peak of influence during the decade following 1910, eugenics became “unfashionable” following the publication of the negative eugenics employed by the Nazi party through the sterilization of 300,000-400,000 Jews and the horrors of concentration camps. While the eugenics movement was reaching its height in the 1910s as was…

highly “gifted” people through the process of selective breeding. In 1914, the Model Sterilization Law was created which declared that the “socially inadequate” should be sterilized. Pedigree charts were used to demonstrate and predict the inheritance of genetic traits. In 1922, this model was added in the book Eugenical Sterilization in the United states which contained material and statistics of sterilization. Adolf Hitler also incorporated the idea of eugenics in 1925. He supported eugenic…

It is undeniable that Psychology’s involvement in Eugenics is not considered one of its high points. The exact definition has been debated upon since the term was coined by Francis Galton. The core of the term deals with the idea that “eminent men have eminent sons” and that “individual greatness or genius occurred within families far too often to be explained solely by environmental influences”(115). Ethically speaking, Eugenics should have been quickly defamed; however, its long term impact…

Mental health is coming to awareness in recent years around the United States; however, mental health diagnoses have been present throughout human existence. Not only has mental health been in existence since human beings, but also racism has haunted minorities in negative ways. This short essay will trace the history of mental health, since 1900’s in the United States to some of the recent studies addressing minorities in mental health. Tracing the history of mental health there is an…

Eugenics: Argument FOR by May Slaughter Human genome editing enhances humans with desirable traits, either known as positive or negative eugenics, possible. Eugenics was coined by Sir Francis Galton, cousin of Darwin, in 1883. 19th century Britain looked down upon anyone, of the lower class. They had planned on sterilizing all of the following: mental illness, alcoholism, criminality, chronic poverty, blindness, deafness, feeble-mindedness, and prostitutes. Along with Galton, Hitler has also…

be made, “[1] In 1925, eight years before Hitler came to power, a eugenic sterilization draft law was submitted, but failed to pass…[2] The German euthanasia program was instituted for economic reasons which bore no relation to eugenics…[3] Finally, the German sterilization program could in no sense be characterized as perverse, savage, or unusual for its time.” These points illustrate both the prevalence of sterilization laws around the world at this time (making Germanic eugenics a very…

case during 1920's, is concreted to be one of the worst rulings of the Supreme Court in the history of American law. During the 1920’s court case in Virginia, the Supreme Court supported sterilization of so-called mental defectives or imbeciles American’s. The First person who was reported to undergo sterilization was a young poor woman by the name of Carrie Buck. According to the Buck v. Bail video Carrie Buck was confined in the Virginia State colony for the epileptics and the feeble-minded…

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 upheld in the county…