In Germany under the Nazis, a movement for eugenics, or "racial hygiene," led to the sterilization and, later, the elimination of people with particular mental or physical disabilities. In the United States, earlier in the century, the eugenics movement produced compulsory sterilization laws. At...
When Adolf Hitler applied Darwin’s theory of evolution and the principles of eugenics to the goals of the German state, the result was the murder of eleven million men, women and children. These lives were sacrificed in the name of eugenics. Eugenicists were seeking to impro...
United States, some observers saw the case as the beginning of the end of the movement for eugenic legal reform]The term eugenic, coined in 1883 by the British geneticist Francis Galton, described a belief that law could be used to improve the quality of the population. When the Court ...
"But the concept of a white, blond-haired, blue-eyed master Nordic race didn't originate with Hitler. The idea was created in the United States, and...
.These laws resulted in the forced sterilization of over 64,000 people in the United States (Lombardo n.d.). At first, sterilization efforts focused on the disabled but later grew to include people whose only “crime” was poverty. These sterilization programs found legal support in ...
Eugenics in the United States Today: Are We on the Same Path Nazi Germany Followed? The word Eugenics means "good genes." Eugenicists believe that principles of Darwin’s theory regarding “the survival of the fittest” can be used to support the elimination of weak and undesirable people fro...
“And wasn’t that the same time he said the United States is No. 1 in the world in terms of the country’s preparedness for a pandemic?” So who has done better – italy ? Iran ? Switzerland ? Germany ? “I’m not suggesting the Trump team isn’t worried now, and trying to re...
"The Eugenics Movement in North Carolina" places North Carolina into the social, political, and legal context of the movement in the United States that resulted in the sterilization of more than thirty thousand people from the 1920s through the 1960s. We sketch the social and political ...
eugenics in the United States as an expansive testing regime that produced disabled people as a species of defective intelligence and aberrant physiology.What resulted was a frenzy of medical assessment that produced - for a time - a 'subnormal ' nation out of the classification of 'defective '...
"The Eugenics Movement in North Carolina" places North Carolina into the social, political, and legal context of the movement in the United States that resulteddoi:10.2139/ssrn.2650083Brophy, Alfred LTroutman, ElizabethSocial Science Electronic Publishing...