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Con EugenicsAlveena JacksTyra Turner
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What is Eugenics?
-Eugenics is the effort to apply the principlesof genetics and agricultural breedingtowards improving the human race.
Eugenics, a term meaning well born, was coined byFrancis Galton in 1883.
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What is Eugenics?
Eugenics emphasizes nature over nurture
Selective breeding
Embryo screening
Ethnic cleansing
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Forms of Eugenics
Positive eugenics is a term describing Galtons
interests in improving the human race throughvoluntary selective breeding
Negative eugenics is seen as bad heredity and theattempts to stop those genes from spreading.
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History of Eugenics
Charles Benedict Davenport (right) isseen as the American father of eugenics.
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History of Eugenics
Eugenics started before scientists knew DNA carriedgenes.
The concept of eugenics arose amidst the industrialrevolution.
o During this time, a growing population believed thatscientific progress could be used to cure all socialproblems.
o Darwinian evolution was seen as the pruning of thepopulation in order to maintain its health.
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Concerns of Eugenicists
Eugenicists pushed for laws to forbidinterracial marriages.
Afraid of the lower class infection on thepopulation.
Degeneration
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Use of Eugenics in theGovernment During the first two decades of the 20th
century, eugenicists used false facts tocreate laws that restricted the influx of
immigrants.
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Sterilization
Involuntary sterilization was permitted in1910 and 1930 in northern Europe, suchas Denmark and Germany, and in theUnited States.
Tens of thousands were affected during
the Depression and during Nazi rule inGermany.
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Use of Eugenics in theGovernment
First eugenic sterilization law was passedin Indiana.
o Convinced sex offenders, habitual criminals,epileptics, the feebleminded, andhereditary defectives to become sterile.
Buck vs. Bell
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Eugenics in Todays Society
Eugenics in education
Medical racism and discrimination
Human genetic engineering
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Who does this effect?
Marginalized people
The mentally ill and disabled
Minorities
Everyone!
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Morality ... Ethics
Discrimination
Prejudice
Selectiveness
Nature vs Nurture
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Thank you!
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