UNHOLY ALLIANCE
Tags: EUGENICS; RELIGION & science; STERILIZATION (Birth control); GENETIC engineering
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- The horrors of yesterday are not behind us; the spirit that produced them is not. Byfield, Ted // Alberta Report / Newsmagazine;10/13/97, Vol. 24 Issue 44, p52
Opinion. Presents the author's views on conditions that made Alberta's compulsory sterilization law possible in the 1920s; James W. Trent's book `Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States'; Britain's G.K. Chesterton, an opponent of sterilization programs;...
- Eugenics and human rights. Kevles, Daniel J. // BMJ: British Medical Journal (International Edition);08/14/99, Vol. 319 Issue 7207, p435
Focuses on the origins of eugenics. Positive and negative effects of eugenics; Impact of sterilization laws on human rights; Criticism of eugenics.
- THE MAN WHO TOLD THE SECRET. Gallagher, Paul // Columbia Journalism Review;Jan/Feb98, Vol. 36 Issue 5, p65
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- Race Enhancement Through Sterilization. Lyn�e, Niels // International Journal of Mental Health;Spring2007, Vol. 36 Issue 1, p17
In 1997 an article appeared in an influential Swedish newspaper stating that thousands of Swedish citizens had been involuntarily sterilized�a scientific scandal. The article and subsequent debate led to an official government report outlining what had actually taken place. Between 1935 and...
- EUGENISTS IN VIRGINIA BETRAY SCIENCE AND DEMOCRACY. Coogan, John E. // America;1/16/1943, Vol. 68 Issue 15, p402
The article focuses on issues related to a U.S. Supreme Court decision which invalidates the Oklahoma law providing sterilization for certain habitual criminals, citing its implications on relevant policy on eugenic sterilization. The Oklahoma punitive sterilization law was declared to fail to...
- Sterile Technique. // Progressive;Jul88, Vol. 52 Issue 7, p8
Criticizes the Iowa Supreme Court decision allowing the involuntary sterilization of mentally retarded adults. Heyday of the American eugenics movement; Sterilization of a woman named Carrie Buck by the state of Virginia; Concerns about the effects of mistakes in the procedure.
- Subtle pressures, coercive sterilizations and denials of access: A trans-crip approach to reproductive subjectivation. Kalender, Ute // Graduate Journal of Social Science;Dec2010, Vol. 7 Issue 2, p76
This paper discusses the topics of reproductive subjectivation and new reproductive technologies from a trans-crip perspective. Part one discusses this using the example of the dominant reproductive settings in Germany with which people termed transsexual and disabled are currently confronted;...
- WITHOUT CONSENT. Holmes, Tamara E. // Black Enterprise;Jan2008, Vol. 38 Issue 6, p26
The article reports that victims of North Carolina's sterilization program is seeking compensation. Thousands of women in North Carolina were sterilized between 1929 and 1974 as part of the eugenics movement, which led to laws in many states that were designed to keep mental illness and social...
- The Campaign for Eugenics in Virginia: The Influence of Dr. J.S. DeJarnette. Brocato, Amanda D. // Augusta Historical Bulletin;2008, Issue 44, p105
In this article the author discusses a movement in the state of Virginia that advocated the sterilization of individuals considered to be afflicted with hereditary forms of mental illness. The author notes that this legislation, enacted in 1924 as the Racial Integrity Act, also made...
