https://padlet.com/greenenglish/3Aeugenics en-us 2016-09-08 19:15:15 UTC 2025-11-03 05:29:25 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lightdecrease.png https://padlet.com/greenenglish/3Aeugenics/wish/122589068 The history of eugenics began in England, when Sir Francis Galton studied the genetics of upper class England. He believed eugenics meant to be "well-born", or having favorable genetics.  Almost a century later, in the U.S., the ERO, (Eugenics Record Office), conducted a research on the correlation of poverty and eugenics. They concluded that people were poor because it was in their traits to be poor. Whether an accurate research or not, they deemed there to be a correlation. Their "solution" was to sterilize all of these people to prevent them from passing such "undesirable" traits. During the 1900's over 65,000 people in the US were sterilized. Most were deaf, blind, and African American women who never consented to being sterilized. Even though deaf and blindness are in fact not due to genetics, they were sterilized. African American women were sterilized because they didn't have "desirable" traits. Even though eugenics was so popular during this time period, by the start of WWII, it lost popularity in the US when eugenics was used to kill so many in Nazi Germany. Today, eugenics is used to eliminate genetically inherited diseases. The goal for the future is to eradicate these diseases, however controversy over these attempts is great since some genetic diseases comes from a certain race. That's when eugenics becomes borderline racism.
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https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1y4Lr4nQZB7gp2c5i-Epn9D3Z3c1SG2_V_2YkR4RXfqA/edit?usp=sharing ]]> 2016-09-08 20:01:55 UTC https://padlet.com/greenenglish/3Aeugenics/wish/122589068 https://padlet.com/greenenglish/3Aeugenics/wish/122590965 "Eugenics is a moral philosophy to improve humanity by encouraging the ablest and healthiest people to have more children". The goal of negative eugenics is to discourage people with undesired traits from reproducing to "preserve humanities finest". People with desired traits are encouraged to reproduce to improve human traits, this is called positive eugenics. ]]> 2016-09-08 20:08:14 UTC https://padlet.com/greenenglish/3Aeugenics/wish/122590965 https://padlet.com/greenenglish/3Aeugenics/wish/122594157 Sir Francis Galton the geographer, statistic, meteorologist, psychologist and forensic scientist created the idea of eugenics. Galton dedicated most of his life to investigating and improving human heredity. His goal was to figure out a way to "improve the human stock and prevent degeneration of genetic potential". ]]> 2016-09-08 20:23:48 UTC https://padlet.com/greenenglish/3Aeugenics/wish/122594157 https://padlet.com/greenenglish/3Aeugenics/wish/122596208 Nuclear material is removed from the embryo or the egg of a woman, with an inheritable disease, in order to prevent the offspring from being born with a certain type disease that will affect them in the long run. As a result, the offspring will be carrying genes from a total of three individuals: their mother, father, and donor of one whose nuclear material is disposed of.]]> 2016-09-08 20:35:12 UTC https://padlet.com/greenenglish/3Aeugenics/wish/122596208 https://padlet.com/greenenglish/3Aeugenics/wish/122596442 Eugenics has been a disgrace to society, many people are victims of this study. Many people had this procedure done to them with no consent. The victims claim that they were attacked, drugged and then sterilized. Many of these victims were only from the ages of 13-16. ]]> 2016-09-08 20:36:35 UTC https://padlet.com/greenenglish/3Aeugenics/wish/122596442 https://padlet.com/greenenglish/3Aeugenics/wish/122596628 Francis Galton created eugenics to preserve desired genes, people who were successful and good looking by eliminated the genes of criminals, alcoholics, psychotics, the mentally disabled and people in poor health. ]]> 2016-09-08 20:37:40 UTC https://padlet.com/greenenglish/3Aeugenics/wish/122596628 https://padlet.com/greenenglish/3Aeugenics/wish/123664460 2016-09-14 05:25:09 UTC https://padlet.com/greenenglish/3Aeugenics/wish/123664460 https://padlet.com/greenenglish/3Aeugenics/wish/123664463 Over 30 states adopted sterilization laws, resulting in "more than 60,000 sterilizations of [the] disabled"(Kaelber). The majority of sterilizations were made, due to mental illnesses]]> 2016-09-14 05:25:13 UTC https://padlet.com/greenenglish/3Aeugenics/wish/123664463