https://padlet.com/peaton/44iijutq884z Discovering Eugenics and related terminology. en-us 2018-04-03 22:25:37 UTC 2024-10-14 11:54:44 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/peaton/44iijutq884z/wish/248479812 Francis Galton - 
- Galton focused on positive eugenics, encouraging healthy, capable people of above-average intelligence to have more children, with the idea of building an “improved” human race
-invented eugenics in 1883
- famous geographer and statitician
- wanted to produce an artificaly better race


]]> 2018-04-04 13:27:34 UTC https://padlet.com/peaton/44iijutq884z/wish/248479812 https://padlet.com/peaton/44iijutq884z/wish/248479921 Relf V.S. Weinberger:
• The United States Federal Government practiced a program where poor black women in the south would be "sterilized" without consent. 
• The Relf sisters were "sterilized" without consent and sued the U.S. government
• They were expecting birth control shots but were robbed of their right to ever bear children
• 100,000-150,000 people were "sterilized" annually and threatened with the loss of welfare if they found out and did not comply.

]]> 2018-04-04 13:27:46 UTC https://padlet.com/peaton/44iijutq884z/wish/248479921 https://padlet.com/peaton/44iijutq884z/wish/248480006 Scientific Racism - Taking physical features and associating them with IQ, personality, and mental state/being.]]> 2018-04-04 13:27:56 UTC https://padlet.com/peaton/44iijutq884z/wish/248480006 https://padlet.com/peaton/44iijutq884z/wish/248480057 Bell vs Buck 
a supreme court case --
They "sterilized" people they deemed unfit for society to prevent them from creating "messed up" offspring ]]> 2018-04-04 13:28:04 UTC https://padlet.com/peaton/44iijutq884z/wish/248480057 kornfeldz20 https://padlet.com/peaton/44iijutq884z/wish/248480196 Eugenics :
The science of improving the human population by controlling breeding to modulate genetics in order to create children with desirable heritage characteristics. A modern name for these individuals being "test tube baby's" or similar. Many parents desire to be able to effectively "customize their child" with specific traits.  ]]> 2018-04-04 13:28:23 UTC https://padlet.com/peaton/44iijutq884z/wish/248480196 https://padlet.com/peaton/44iijutq884z/wish/248480430 Law 116: The last eugenics sterilization law to be passed. In 1976 the U.S Department of Health, Education, and Welfare reported over 37% of women childbearing age in Puerto Rico had been sterilized.]]> 2018-04-04 13:28:54 UTC https://padlet.com/peaton/44iijutq884z/wish/248480430 https://padlet.com/peaton/44iijutq884z/wish/248480453 Social Darwinists argued that social progress resulted from conflicts in which the fittest or best adapted individuals, or entire societies, would prevail.]]> 2018-04-04 13:28:56 UTC https://padlet.com/peaton/44iijutq884z/wish/248480453 https://padlet.com/peaton/44iijutq884z/wish/248481627 2018-04-04 13:31:21 UTC https://padlet.com/peaton/44iijutq884z/wish/248481627 https://padlet.com/peaton/44iijutq884z/wish/248484339 2018-04-04 13:36:41 UTC https://padlet.com/peaton/44iijutq884z/wish/248484339