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Quoted phrase not found in phrase index: "Eugenics in the United States"
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Eugenics and Involuntary Sterilization: 1907-2015.
Reilly PR. Reilly PR. Annu Rev Genomics Hum Genet. 2015;16:351-68. doi: 10.1146/annurev-genom-090314-024930. Annu Rev Genomics Hum Genet. 2015. PMID: 26322647 Review.
In the United States, members of the Progressive movement embraced eugenic ideas, especially immigration restriction and sterilization. ...Beginning in the late 1930s, proponents rationalized involuntary sterilization as protecting vulnerable women from unwan …
In the United States, members of the Progressive movement embraced eugenic ideas, especially immigration restriction an …
Nursing and eugenics in the early 20th century United States.
Skeen K, Wall BM. Skeen K, et al. Nurs Outlook. 2023 Sep-Oct;71(5):102018. doi: 10.1016/j.outlook.2023.102018. Epub 2023 Jul 29. Nurs Outlook. 2023. PMID: 37524000
PURPOSE: This study aims to better understand how some nurses thought about and interacted with eugenics in the early 20th century. METHODS: Historical analysis of primary and secondary sources. ...CONCLUSION: Nursing's past relationship with eugenics sheds light on …
PURPOSE: This study aims to better understand how some nurses thought about and interacted with eugenics in the early 20th century. M …
[Sir Francis Galton: the father of eugenics].
Aubert-Marson D. Aubert-Marson D. Med Sci (Paris). 2009 Jun-Jul;25(6-7):641-5. doi: 10.1051/medsci/2009256-7641. Med Sci (Paris). 2009. PMID: 19602363 Free article. French.
Galton's eugenics was a program to artificially produce a better human race through regulating marriage and thus procreation. ...His widely-publicized lecture served as the starting point for the development of eugenics groups in Europe and the United Stat …
Galton's eugenics was a program to artificially produce a better human race through regulating marriage and thus procreation. ...His …
Uterus collectors: The case for reproductive justice for African American, Native American, and Hispanic American female victims of eugenics programs in the United States.
Smaw ED. Smaw ED. Bioethics. 2022 Mar;36(3):318-327. doi: 10.1111/bioe.12977. Epub 2021 Dec 12. Bioethics. 2022. PMID: 34897765
For these reasons, I conclude that African American, Native American, and Hispanic American women who were sterilized without their knowledge or consent by doctors working for public health agencies ought to be awarded reparations by the United States Congress. Addi …
For these reasons, I conclude that African American, Native American, and Hispanic American women who were sterilized without their knowledg …
Involuntary sterilization in the United States: a surgical solution.
Reilly PR. Reilly PR. Q Rev Biol. 1987 Jun;62(2):153-70. doi: 10.1086/415404. Q Rev Biol. 1987. PMID: 3299450 Review.
Although the eugenics movement in the United States flourished during the first quarter of the 20th Century, its roots lie in concerns over the cost of caring for "defective" persons, concerns that first became manifest in the 19th Century. ...Data are presen …
Although the eugenics movement in the United States flourished during the first quarter of the 20th Century, its roots …
Diabetes and "defective" genes in the twentieth-century United States.
Tuchman AM. Tuchman AM. J Hist Med Allied Sci. 2015 Jan;70(1):1-33. doi: 10.1093/jhmas/jrt037. Epub 2013 Aug 26. J Hist Med Allied Sci. 2015. PMID: 23982987
Insulin thus came to be seen as both a blessing for the individual and a problem for the future of humankind. Nevertheless, diabetics in the United States were neither prevented nor discouraged from reproducing. I argue that this stemmed from the widespread belief t …
Insulin thus came to be seen as both a blessing for the individual and a problem for the future of humankind. Nevertheless, diabetics in the …
R.A. Fisher, eugenics, and the campaign for family allowances in interwar Britain.
Aylward A. Aylward A. Br J Hist Sci. 2021 Dec;54(4):485-505. doi: 10.1017/S0007087421000674. Br J Hist Sci. 2021. PMID: 34629128
Alongside his influential scientific contributions, he was also, throughout the interwar years, a prominent figure within Britain's eugenics movement. This essay provides a close examination of his eugenical ideas and activities, focusing particularly upon his energ …
Alongside his influential scientific contributions, he was also, throughout the interwar years, a prominent figure within Britain's eugen …
Deadly medicine.
Bachrach S. Bachrach S. Public Hist. 2007 Summer;29(3):19-32. doi: 10.1525/tph.2007.29.3.19. Public Hist. 2007. PMID: 18175449
This article discusses the methods the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum used to make an exhibition on the complex history of Nazi eugenics accessible to the museum's mass public and at the same time, provocative for special audiences consisting of prof …
This article discusses the methods the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum used to make an exhibition on the complex histo …
Contraception or eugenics? Sterilization and "mental retardation" in the 1970s and 1980s.
Ladd-Taylor M. Ladd-Taylor M. Can Bull Med Hist. 2014;31(1):189-211. doi: 10.3138/cbmh.31.1.189. Can Bull Med Hist. 2014. PMID: 24909024
It analyzes the concept of mental retardation and the appeal of a surgical solution to birth control, assesses judicial deliberations over the "right to choose" contraceptive sterilization when the capacity to consent is in doubt, and reflects on the shadow of eugenics tha …
It analyzes the concept of mental retardation and the appeal of a surgical solution to birth control, assesses judicial deliberations over t …
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