The Unfit: A History of a Bad IdeaCold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2001 - 451 σελίδες The Unfit, by Elof Carlson, explores the sources of a movement – negative eugenics – that was used to justify the Holocaust, which claimed millions of innocent lives in World War II. The title reflects the nearly three centuries of belief that some people are socially unfit by virtue of a defective biology, and echoes an earlier theory of degeneracy, dating to biblical antiquity, in which some people were deemed unfit because of some transgression against religious law. The author presents the first biological theory of degeneracy – onanism – and then follows the development of degeneracy theory throughout the nineteenth century and its application to a variety of social classes. The key intellectual theories and their proponents form the framework of this exploration, which includes the concepts of evolution and heredity and how they were applied to social problems. These ideas are followed into the twentieth century with the development of theories of positive and negative eugenics, the establishment of compulsory sterilization laws, racism and anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust. This story of misapplied science and technology is one that still haunts humanity in the twenty-first century. The ghost of eugenics recurs in many guises during debates and controversies about intelligence testing, genetic screening, prenatal diagnosis, gene therapy, new reproductive strategies, and uses of our genomic information. Carlson ends his discussion of the history of humanity in this arena with an exploration of the future of genetics that is based on new technologies and application of the Human Genome Project findings, as well as a discussion of the death of the old eugenics and of the problems that will not go away, including our ambivalence about our own biology. |
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... Sharp believed females would improve from the secretions released by the untied oviduct at the ovarian end of the cut . " 88 SHARP'S ADVOCACY FOR MORE STATE STERILIZATION LAWS Sharp felt at his peak as a social evangelist in 1909. He ...
... Sharp believed females would improve from the secretions released by the untied oviduct at the ovarian end of the cut . " 88 SHARP'S ADVOCACY FOR MORE STATE STERILIZATION LAWS Sharp felt at his peak as a social evangelist in 1909. He ...
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... Sharp , First Biennial Report , 1898 . Harry C. Sharp , " Neurasthenia and its treatment , " Proceedings of the Mississippi Val- ley Medical Association ( Nashville , Tennessee , October 11-16 , 1898 ) . Sharp was using a modified theme ...
... Sharp , First Biennial Report , 1898 . Harry C. Sharp , " Neurasthenia and its treatment , " Proceedings of the Mississippi Val- ley Medical Association ( Nashville , Tennessee , October 11-16 , 1898 ) . Sharp was using a modified theme ...
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... Sharp , Vasectomy : A Means of Preventing Defective Procreation ( Indiana Reformatory Print , Jeffersonville , 1908 ) . Sharp is inconsistent with the numbers he cites . On page 10 he says " After observing nearly 500 males in whom I ...
... Sharp , Vasectomy : A Means of Preventing Defective Procreation ( Indiana Reformatory Print , Jeffersonville , 1908 ) . Sharp is inconsistent with the numbers he cites . On page 10 he says " After observing nearly 500 males in whom I ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Before Darwin | 7 |
Who Are the Unfit? | 9 |
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19th century Anonymous anti-Semitism associated August Weismann behavior believed biological birth breeding Carrie Buck castration cells charity Charles child claimed compulsory sterilization Congress of Eugenics courtesy of CSHL crime criminals CSHL Archives Darwin Davenport David Starr Jordan defects degeneracy degenerate disease disorders Dugdale edition essay eugenics movement Eugenics Record Office evolution Francis Galton Galton gene geneticists German H.J. Muller Harry Harry Laughlin hereditary heredity Hitler human genetics Ibid idea immigration Indiana individual inheritance insane Jeffersonville Jewish Jews Jordan Journal Jukes Lamarck Laughlin London males Malthus marriage masturbation McCulloch Mendel mental moral mutation nation Nazi negative eugenics Nordau normal Onan Onania organs parents paupers person physical physicians political Poor Laws population positive eugenics prison race hygiene racial reform Reformatory Reprinted reproductive sexual Sharp social society species Spencer sperm sterilization law theory tion traits unfit United University vasectomies views Weismann York