Eugenics has been a controversial topic since the 1900’s‚ while most people think that the idea of eugenics originated from Nazi Germany‚ it was actually formed by English mathematician from the British Empire named Francis Galton. The concept of eugenics created by Galton was that babies had to be “good in stock‚ and hereditarily endowed with noble qualities”. In summary‚ the ideology of eugenics was to purposely engineer and create what their idea of a perfect human was with the use of genetics
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The original or classical eugenics movement was conceived in the late 19th century and served as a way to “keep certain strains out of our blood”.1 The more progressive eugenics movement‚ denoted positive eugenics‚ has a slightly different undercurrent – and promotes better prenatal and natal health in order to improve population health.2 Nonetheless‚ the underlying idea of eugenics as a means to promote “survival of the fittest” has been perpetuated through prenatal genetic testing and‚ a step further
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Eugenics is “the study of human heredity and genetic principles for the purposes of improving the human race by limiting the proliferation of defective gene pools” (Polirstok‚ 2011). In other words‚ Davenport wanted the law to be passed to be able to sterilize the mentally ill so that they were unable to continue populating the world with other mentally ill people. Charles Davenport‚ the founder of the American eugenics movement‚ was one of many Americans that were really pushing for this new form
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folk‚ poor people‚ the infirm and anyone classified outside the gentrified genetic lines drawn up were to cease to exist. Eugenicist’s even went as far to identify so called defective family trees and subject them to lifelong segregation‚ sterilization and eventual extermination to kill such bloodlines. An example to such a terrible idea was during the 1930’s and 1940’s in Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler victimized‚ segregated and nearly exterminated an entire continent in his quest for a so
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In Mazower Healthy Bodies‚ and Sick Bodies chapter he discuss the involvement the government had on its citizens health after World War I. Europe had a great interest maximum birth rate for those who seem fit and minimizing those who are not. European governments wanted to insure only superior individuals to have children to benefit the nation. In the beginning of the chapter‚ Mazower list Nazi propaganda from the Nazi handbook on what Germans should look for a spouse. Nazis wanted its citizens to
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individuals who fell into the category of being mentally dysfunctional‚ homosexual‚ or Jewish were contamination threats to the superior race. The culture believed this to be correct. In 1927‚ the U.S. Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell ordered the sterilization of Carrie Buck‚ destroying her fundamental reproductive freedom on the grounds that she was part of a family that yielded 3 generations of imbeciles . Fifty-three years later‚ a follow up revealed that Carrie lived a normal quality of life.
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Mixed Blood The terminology ‘mixed blood’ came from the eugenic school of thought. According to Encyclopaedia Britannica‚ the definition of eugenics is ‘the selection of desired heritable characteristics in order to improve future generations.’ Unfortunately‚ this idea has carried through generations. Hitler had eugenic ideas and was incredibly racist (Pow & Stahnisch 2016‚ pg 253). People believe that ‘full bloods’ are pure and inferior to ‘half bloods’ or ‘mixed bloods’ which are racially mixed
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Eugenics was introduced to the world around 1883‚ and was presented as a mathematical science that could be used to predict the traits of humans and control human breeding. In reality Eugenics is very risky and many people use it as a tool to play God. Although Eugenics is thought to be a tool to help us sift the genetic diseases out of society‚ it has a lot of consequences. Essentially‚ society will have to choose what a desirable trait is and what is undesirable‚ which varies from person to person
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Katie Muterspaw Mrs. Ascoli AP English 9 October 12‚ 2014 Argumentative Essay: Eugenics Eugenics has been defined as “The science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics.” In other words‚ eugenics is a process used to rid certain societies of individuals that could potentially be considered weak‚ or undesirable. Eugenics is an unpopular yet extremely important‚ and very serious subject. The idea of
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Eugenics is defined as a science that tries to improve the human race by controlling which people become parents. I believe that the government should not be allowed to see if future children have good or bad genes. In the past we have seen a nation try to do this to others‚ and that nation is Germany. Hitler only wanted a certain type of people to be on this earth‚ and he killed off everybody else that he believed did not have good genes. The question is‚ is history going to repeat itself? Even
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