Eugenics

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the act of sexual sterilization (SS) for the purpose of eugenics, in regard to mental health patients. This paper will also discuss the law pertaining to this issue and how this issue relates to health care providers, specifically nurses. Background Eugenics is a social process by which the society tries to purify the gene pool with the most desirable mental and/or physical characteristics to that society, which are thought to have a component of…

which were victims of the eugenics program. The eugenics program was a way of creating a population of more desirable (the whites), and getting rid of the undesirables ( all others who did not meet the criteria of society then). The way that this was carried out was through forced sterilization, and/ or elimination by death. Even though Henrietta lived in a time period where this was more than likely to happen to her. I believe that she was not a victim of the eugenics program, in spite the…

countries they gained control of during World War II. One of the most horrendous policies Hitler imposed was eugenics, the creation of a master race. Although he did not have blond hair or blue eyes, Hitler believed these were important qualities for a superior race. This quest led to the murders of over six million Jews, Christians, disabled, and elderly (Black). It may seem like the policy of eugenics was buried with the defeat of the Nazi Party, but the idea of a master race is becoming an…

psychologists today. In the past, individuals of different races were considered to be mentally ill based on the study of eugenics. While eugenics were constructed by psychologists of the past, that does not mean that Hitler’s methods are supported by psychologists of today (contrary to what the documentary suggests). The documentary also illustrated how racism reinforced eugenics in the apartheid…

Critics have argued that new technologies such as DNA testing allow for the potential development of new forms of eugenics. What might these forms include? What are the potential dangers involved with these new technologies? It is undeniable that any method that intends to maintain the “good genes” in society would not only spark an extended array of ethical concerns but could also backfire in several ways. Human genetics has been the topic of several debates for an extended period of time,…

Eugenics was driven to some extent by reasons for alarm that present day foundations had put aside the beneficial parts of natural selection. Eugenicists persistently played on the specter of weak and sickly humans which was safeguarded through cutting edge…

The thought of eugenics has been around ever since Gregor Mendel first started cross-breeding plants to get the best product. But would it be taken too far if eugenicists were able to manipulate human DNA? The ability to genetically edit humans is desirable (just think about how desirable plastic surgery has become), but it would come with many consequences, some that make the advance seem unnecessary. Let us take a look into similar applications and a few of the flaws of human engineering…

Ross L. Jones’s article investigates a society that practiced eugenics during the last two centuries. Eugenics was a major school of thought based on science and accepted as true by upper-class people (165). Eugenics played an enormous role in Australian society by denouncing those who had “inferior genes”, which was approved by the medical community and the politicians of that era. The main motivator for eugenics was the educated class and politicians. Pro-eugenicists sought the “maximising of…

The goal of eugenics is to remove all with “undesirable” traits such as: “feebleminded”, habitual criminality, sexual offenses, epileptics, and “drunkards” to name a few. The ideology of Eugenics is commonly associated with Nazi Germany on the basis of their attempt to create a master race. While few medical professionals in Germany were exploring eugenics, or race hygiene, in the early part of the twentieth century many states in the…

Society has been, and always will be determined to be greater and better than what it was in the past. Unfortunately with Eugenics, and its implementation, it sought to better society in a non-humanitarian way, to almost the points of de-humanizing the people who fell into a certain category. For the American Eugenics Society to clearly and outright state that “Some people are born to be a burden on the rest” is a very uneasy and not well thought out statement against people who are essentially…