eugenics in A Sentence

Most of us flinch at the word“Eugenics”;

Will a race survive Eugenics?

The alternative could be a new form of Eugenics.

The word“Eugenics” comes from the Greek“eu” meaning“good/well” and“-genēs” meaning“born”.

Pearson was also a proponent of social Darwinism and Eugenics.

The university was involved in Nazi Eugenics: forced sterilizations were carried out at the women's clinic

One controversy around these tests involved the Eugenics movement, but that's beyond the scope of this introductory article.

Long before the advent of America's leading philanthropies, however, Eugenics was born as a scientific curiosity in the Victorian age.

Further, by 1936 in the United States, 31 of 48 states had some type of Eugenics or forced sterilization laws for undesirables.

(Surprisingly, given his earlier flirtation with positive Eugenics, Wells also insisted on“freedom from any sort of mutilation or sterilisation” and from torture.).

He also maintained different arguments in favor of Eugenics, and others against behavioral currents, which generated some rejection by the American scientific community.

Eugenics was the idea that humanity could engineer a better future for itself by identifying and regulating these groups using science and technology.

Xinjiang Wadao jujube is a local specialty food in Xinjiang, produced in the heart of the world's fruit Eugenics central area- Xinjiang Hotan.

Hitler's race hatred sprung from his own mind, but the intellectual outlines of the Eugenics Hitler adopted in 1924 were made in America.

By 1935, the Nuremberg and Marital Health Laws extended the Eugenics program to include Jewish people and prohibited their marriages(and sex) with non-Jews.

Nonetheless, Eugenics has not disappeared, and in fact in recent years, it has become a central point of debate among geneticists, ethicists and activists.

In the early twentieth century, new genetic discoveries prompted supporters of Eugenics to ponder the potential creation and characteristics of a superior human race.

While some supporters of Eugenics stressed that the enhancement of the human race required not merely better breeding but also environmental and educational adjustments, others were skeptical.

Supreme Court in Buck v. Bell, found Virginia's Eugenics law, based on Laughlin's model law, constitutional with regard to the forced sterilization of a"feeble minded white woman:".

The popularity of Eugenics reached its crescendo just before WWII, dying out after for obvious reasons, though very minor elements of it are still widely practiced today.

Sweden was another example of a country that kept the Eugenics torch burning until 1975, forcibly sterilizing some 21,000 people and coercing another 6,000 into"voluntarily" being sterilized.

Eugenics is as old as Plato(although he didn't call it that) and in The Republic, Plato(428-347 BC) argued that the state should control the reproduction of its ruling classes:.

Besides utilizing the practice of hypnosis in his own psychology work, he applied the theory of evolution and opposed the ideas of Eugenics- both minority positions during his time.

The popularity of Eugenics reached its crescendo just before WWII, dying out after for obvious reasons, though of course minor elements of it are still practiced today in many nations.

Churchill favored Eugenics- the now completely debunked belief that things like criminality and intelligence were based in genetics, so breeding should be restricted to only those with the best genes.

Having made this decision, Haiselden contacted a reporter to share the story, believing that shedding light on such practices would make the case for the betterment of society through Eugenics.

It should be noted that this was also an era when Eugenics was a hugely popular concept throughout much of the developed world, even supported by the likes of Winston Churchill.

Building on that, his cousin, Francis Galton, a famous scientist in his own right(he created the first weather map), reignited interest in purposefully selecting human traits and coined the term Eugenics.

With the rise of the Eugenics movement, 33 of the then 48 U.S. states and several countries began programs of forced sterilization of individuals with Down syndrome and comparable degrees of disability.

The name deriving from the Greek“eugenes,” meaning“well-born,” it should be no surprise that“Eugenics” seeks to engineer a better human race by purposefully selecting good traits, and eliminating bad ones, as is common when breeding animals.

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eugenics in A Sentence

Most of us flinch at the word“Eugenics”;

Will a race survive Eugenics?

The alternative could be a new form of Eugenics.

The word“Eugenics” comes from the Greek“eu” meaning“good/well” and“-genēs” meaning“born”.

Pearson was also a proponent of social Darwinism and Eugenics.

The university was involved in Nazi Eugenics: forced sterilizations were carried out at the women's clinic

One controversy around these tests involved the Eugenics movement, but that's beyond the scope of this introductory article.

Long before the advent of America's leading philanthropies, however, Eugenics was born as a scientific curiosity in the Victorian age.

Further, by 1936 in the United States, 31 of 48 states had some type of Eugenics or forced sterilization laws for undesirables.

(Surprisingly, given his earlier flirtation with positive Eugenics, Wells also insisted on“freedom from any sort of mutilation or sterilisation” and from torture.).

He also maintained different arguments in favor of Eugenics, and others against behavioral currents, which generated some rejection by the American scientific community.

Eugenics was the idea that humanity could engineer a better future for itself by identifying and regulating these groups using science and technology.

Xinjiang Wadao jujube is a local specialty food in Xinjiang, produced in the heart of the world's fruit Eugenics central area- Xinjiang Hotan.

Hitler's race hatred sprung from his own mind, but the intellectual outlines of the Eugenics Hitler adopted in 1924 were made in America.

By 1935, the Nuremberg and Marital Health Laws extended the Eugenics program to include Jewish people and prohibited their marriages(and sex) with non-Jews.

Nonetheless, Eugenics has not disappeared, and in fact in recent years, it has become a central point of debate among geneticists, ethicists and activists.

In the early twentieth century, new genetic discoveries prompted supporters of Eugenics to ponder the potential creation and characteristics of a superior human race.

While some supporters of Eugenics stressed that the enhancement of the human race required not merely better breeding but also environmental and educational adjustments, others were skeptical.

Supreme Court in Buck v. Bell, found Virginia's Eugenics law, based on Laughlin's model law, constitutional with regard to the forced sterilization of a"feeble minded white woman:".

The popularity of Eugenics reached its crescendo just before WWII, dying out after for obvious reasons, though very minor elements of it are still widely practiced today.

Sweden was another example of a country that kept the Eugenics torch burning until 1975, forcibly sterilizing some 21,000 people and coercing another 6,000 into"voluntarily" being sterilized.

Eugenics is as old as Plato(although he didn't call it that) and in The Republic, Plato(428-347 BC) argued that the state should control the reproduction of its ruling classes:.

Besides utilizing the practice of hypnosis in his own psychology work, he applied the theory of evolution and opposed the ideas of Eugenics- both minority positions during his time.

The popularity of Eugenics reached its crescendo just before WWII, dying out after for obvious reasons, though of course minor elements of it are still practiced today in many nations.

Churchill favored Eugenics- the now completely debunked belief that things like criminality and intelligence were based in genetics, so breeding should be restricted to only those with the best genes.

Having made this decision, Haiselden contacted a reporter to share the story, believing that shedding light on such practices would make the case for the betterment of society through Eugenics.

It should be noted that this was also an era when Eugenics was a hugely popular concept throughout much of the developed world, even supported by the likes of Winston Churchill.

Building on that, his cousin, Francis Galton, a famous scientist in his own right(he created the first weather map), reignited interest in purposefully selecting human traits and coined the term Eugenics.

With the rise of the Eugenics movement, 33 of the then 48 U.S. states and several countries began programs of forced sterilization of individuals with Down syndrome and comparable degrees of disability.

The name deriving from the Greek“eugenes,” meaning“well-born,” it should be no surprise that“Eugenics” seeks to engineer a better human race by purposefully selecting good traits, and eliminating bad ones, as is common when breeding animals.

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