HIST364-5.3.6.2-Study-Questions-Eugenics-FINAL. Contemporary Carrie Buck? Recently, a 35-year-old woman sued a Boston-area hospital for performing a tubal ligation, thus sterilizing her, after the birth of her 9th child.
Tessa Savicki states that she requested an IUD, a reversible form of birth control. Because two of her children are on welfare and she is unemployed, Tessa’s case has sparked passionate reactions and brings to mind the case of Carrie Buck. The similarities are numerous. Social Origins of Eugenics. Social Origins of Eugenics Garland E.
Allen, Washington University When many people first learn about eugenics, they wonder how intelligent people, including highly educated scientists, could have believed so many seemingly bizarre ideas. How could anyone accept the simplistic notion that complex human behaviors are determined by single genes or that mental tests designated more than three/fourths of all Russian and Polish immigrants to the U.S. as feebleminded? To understand why eugenics gained such a following in the first three decades of the 20th century, one needs to examine the economic, social, and political context in which it flourished. American eugenics developed in the wake of turbulent economic and social problems following the Civil War. California Prisons Were Illegally Sterilizing Female Inmates. Over the course of several years, two women's prisons in California signed at least 150 pregnant women up for permanent sterilization to be performed after they gave birth, without following the required state approval procedure.
And now, some women who underwent the procedure say they felt coerced into having a tubal ligation while incarcerated, according to a report from the Center for Investigative Reporting. Forced sterilization of institutionalized human beings — those in mental institutions, or in prisons, for example — has a long and gruesome history in the U.S., and in California in particular, where forced sterilization has been against the law since 1979. Untitled. Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's The Eugenics Archive utilizes Flash for enhanced search features, cross referencing, and interactive images created with Zoomifyer.
Get the Flash plugin at Adobe.com. Meet the new Social Darwinists. This originally appeared on Robert Reich's blog.
What kind of society, exactly, do modern Republicans want? I’ve been listening to Republican candidates in an effort to discern an overall philosophy, a broadly-shared vision, an ideal picture of America. They say they want a smaller government but that can’t be it. Most seek a larger national defense and more muscular homeland security. Almost all want to widen the government’s powers of search and surveillance inside the United States – eradicating possible terrorists, expunging undocumented immigrants, “securing” the nation’s borders. College Board Scores With Critics of SAT Analogies. Simulation of Morton's Technique for Measuring Skulls. Penn: Penn Museum's Morton Skull Collection at Center of Scientific Dispute. Eugenics. Meet the new Social Darwinists - Republican Party. Rudyard Kipling: We and They. RACE - The Power of an Illusion . Sorting People.
IQ Testing and Social Policy: Overview. The story of IQ--or Intelligence Quotient--Testing begins around the turn of the century in France.
The Mismeasures of Stephen Jay Gould. In the rush to prove bias in a scientist who erroneously used skull-size measurements to demonstrate racial differences, the great historian Stephen Jay Gould may have succumbed to bias himself.
The Mismeasure of Science: Stephen Jay Gould versus Samuel George Morton on Skulls and Bias. Citation: Lewis JE, DeGusta D, Meyer MR, Monge JM, Mann AE, Holloway RL (2011) The Mismeasure of Science: Stephen Jay Gould versus Samuel George Morton on Skulls and Bias.
PLoS Biol 9(6): e1001071. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001071 Published: June 7, 2011 Copyright: © 2011 Lewis et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Funding: This research was funded by the University of Pennsylvania University Research Foundation and the Nassau Research Fund. Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement. RACE - The Power of an Illusion . Background Readings. INTERVIEW WITH STEPHEN JAY GOULD edited transcript Stephen Jay Gould was one of the foremost natural historians of our time and has written many books, including The Mismeasure of Man.
What was wrong with Samuel Morton's skull measurements? Samuel Morton had amassed the best and most extensive skull collection of different types of people that had ever been gathered together, and he tried to measure the volume of a skull. And when he got his hundred skulls of American Indians and compared them with his forty or fifty skulls of African peoples and his many Caucasian people, he ended up where he expected right in the beginning: with white folks having several more cubic centimeters than Indians, and Indians having several more cubic centimeters on average than blacks. Now, since so many studies since then have found little to no difference among human groups - not that it would matter if there were substantial differences - you wonder how he got those results. Study Debunks Stephen Jay Gould’s Claim of Racism on Morton Skulls.
Topic Overview: Samuel Morton.