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Showing 1 to 20 of 85 for “"Eugenics"”.
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British Eugenics Failure and Success
<p>The historical narrative of eugenics often focuses on those eugenic societies and movements that ‘succeeded’ in part or in full in achieving a eugenic society. Less studied are those societies that failed, whether due to social backlash or internal incoherence. The British Eugenic Educational …
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Eugenics, demography and family planning in Greece, 1950-1980: the activities of the Hellenic Eugenics Society
… views. It was in this context that the Hellenic Eugenics Society was established in Greece. This dissertation addresses the population problems experienced by Greece during the period from the 1950s to the 1980s, from the vantage point of eugenics and family planning. Attention will be especially …
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The Women of reform: Kansas eugenics
… research sought to answer was what made Kansas eugenics unique and in what ways was it representative of eugenics throughout the nation. The main problem in studying the history of the eugenics movement in Kansas is the state's own unwillingness to acknowledge such a past exists. The …
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Rhetorical Genealogy and the Ethics of Eugenics
… strives to critique contemporary rhetoric on eugenics. In recent years, scientists succeeded in mapping the human genome and subsequently developed new gene editing technologies. To situate current ethical discourses about eugenics, I trace histories of these discourses at several scales of …
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From Galton to Globalization: The Transatlantic Journey of Eugenics
How did eugenics go from an idea in Britain to a movement in America? That was the question this dissertation originally set out to answer. Also, of interest was how the theory of eugenics went from the fringes to becoming mainstream. Who were the key figures in this transatlantic journey? How were …
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Inheriting Shame: A Critical Analysis of “The Eugenics Review”
… intending to better humanity by founding The Eugenics Society and producing, "The Eugenics Review,” a publication that circulated throughout the United States from 1909 until 1968. Eugenicists wrote on diverse topics surrounding race betterment by introducing scientific methods that were both …
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Ethics, Eugenics, and Public Education in Georgia (1910-1965)
<p>This study traces the eugenics movement in Georgia, focusing on the ideology behind the social policies that led to the forced sterilizations of over four thousand Georgians from 1939 to 1965. This thesis will address the following questions: 1) How were Georgia’s public policies affected by …
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Disciplining the future. Eugenics and modernization in interwar Romania
"Eugenics, the ideology of controlling the quality and quantity of the human species found many adepts in Romania during the interwar period. They brought to life their various interpretations of eugenics in many embodiments, from programs for physical education and better nutrition, to movements …
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The Emergence of Eugenics as Science in Zurich, c. 1890
… a first, formative episode of early German eugenics, years before the terms ‘eugenics’ or ‘race hygiene’ were in use. The first chapter considers early eugenic practice as a form of knowledge production. During the research for this PhD, documentation of the first European eugenic castration …
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Chesterton and his interlocutors : dialogical style and ethical debate on eugenics.
… and Roman Catholic apologetics, published Eugenics and Other Evils in 1922. Therein he fiercely opposed eugenics and state sponsored eugenic practices; but his was not an isolated text offered in monologic argument to some vague social menace. In fact, Chesterton never wrote monologically …
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A resurgence of eugenics? The role of race in egg donation
… donation process, using racial matching and neo-eugenics as its theoretical frameworks. Ten semi-structured open ended interviews were conducted with nine participants, all of whom work in the field of fertility. The study discovered that the role race plays in the egg donation process is …
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What Happened to Mexican Eugenics?: Racism and the Reproduction of the Nation
… sociology to explore the ways in which eugenics was carried out in Mexico. Particularly, this research seeks to analyze the historical continuations of eugenic measures and ideas in Mexico and the ways in which this impacts and echoes in the twenty-first century. This, in turn, allows …
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Morphological Freedom and the Construction of Bodymind Malleability from Eugenics to Transhumanism
This dissertation examines how the human bodymind has been seen as malleable by science, technology, and policy practitioners from the Eugenic era in the United States in the first half of the 20th century, to the future imaginaries of Transhumanists and technology innovators. I critique the main …
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Let Us Make Perfect Children - The Rhetorical Concept Of Obligation In Eugenics Movements
Examining the concept of obligation in historical eugenics movements provides a cautionary diagnostic tool for the liberal eugenics movement. To see how this challenging obligation rhetoric plays into the social and legal aspects of medicine, I analyze both past and present eugenics movements and …
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Personal Politics: The Rise of Personality Traits in the Century of Eugenics and Psychoanalysis
… development alongside psychoanalysis and eugenics, offering a disciplinary and cultural history of personality across the twentieth century. Using the psychological concepts of neurosis and introversion as an organizational framework, personalitys history is portrayed as one of success: a …
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Society's Biological Entrapment: Maternity, Eugenics, and Violence in 1920's American Literature and Film
… the early twentieth-century preoccupation with eugenics. In this project, I argue that these methods of opposition took place through actions of child abuse, maternal neglect, and infanticide. Part of this dissertation identifies eugenically motivated cultural discourse, including various forms …
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Compulsory Death: A Historiographic Study of the Eugenics and Euthanasia Movements in Nazi Germany.
… thesis is a historiographical study of the eugenics and euthanasia programs of Nazi Germany. It traces there development from the end of World War One to the fall of Hitler's Third Reich. There are three stages in this study. First, I examine eugenics after World War One and the effect the …
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Should such a faith offend? Bishop Barnes and the British eugenics movement, c.1924-1953
… and one of the prominent members of the Eugenics Society, Barnes used the pulpit as a platform to promote eugenic reform both before and after 1945. Above all, he believed it essential for Britain’s biological and spiritual progress to address the alleged widespread mental deficiency in …
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