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Helen Keller: Physicians Juries for Defective Babies, Article in the New Republic, 1915

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Due to the successful sanitization of the past in regards to eugenics, it is largely unknown how pervasive eugenics attitudes were, and how expansive eugenicists believed their program to be. Here we have Helen Keller, writing in a prominent liberal magazine, advocating explicitly for infanticide–in the name of the race. For more information and the …

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The Eugenic Roots of Genetic Counseling

Filed under 1914, 1915, 1916, 1949, 1952, 1954, 1968, 1972, abortion, After-birth abortion, American Eugenics, applied biology, ASHG, birth control, birth defects, compulsory sterilization, Contraception, defectives, degeneration, Down Syndrome, dysgenic breeding, dysgenics, education, Elaine Freeman, eugenics, euthanasia, euthenics, every child a wanted child, Evolution, family planning, feeble-minded, feebleminded, Fit and Unfit, Frederick Osborn, genetic counseling, genetic load, Genetics, Germany, H.J. Muller, Harrison Brown, Harry J. Haiselden, Helen Keller, hereditary courts, hereditary cripples, heredity clinic, Holocaust, human weeds, laws of heredity, Laws of Nature, Lee R. Dice, Madison Grant, medical genetics, medical killing, meningomyelocele, mental defectives, mongolism, morality, Natural selection, Nazis, New York Times, planned evolution, quote collections, race, rational selection, sanctity of life, science, sentimentalism, social body, spina bifida, sterilization, The God Committee, The Passing of the Great Race, Year

Charity requires us to believe that most contemporary genetic counselors are not at all motivated by considerations that we would term ‘eugenic.’ However, the founders of the field left no doubt about their motivations, stating them plainly and explicitly, and characterizing them as definitely constituting eugenics. The following material raises more than reasonable doubt that …

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Mass Extermination and ‘Lethal Chambers’ Widely Considered by Eugenicists in America, England, and Germay

Filed under 1890, 1900, 1908, 1910, 1911, 1914, 1915, 1922, 1930, American Eugenics, birth control, birth rate, capital punishiment, carbonic acid gas, Charity, compulsory sterilization, Constitution, Contraception, defectives, degeneration, eugenics, Eugenics Education Society, euthanasia, feeble-minded, Frank Taussig, George Bernard Shaw, George William Hunter, idiots, imbecile, infanticide, laisser-faire, laws of heredity, Laws of Nature, lethal chamber, life unworthy of life, man as animal, Margaret Sanger, minimum wage, Nazis, sanctity of life, segregation, self-defense, society, sterilization, The Pivot of Civilization, W. Duncan McKim, Year

Long before the Nazis implemented the ‘Final Solution,’ American and English eugenicists had talked often of the use of ‘lethal chambers’ to deal with the pressing problem of the ‘unfit.’ You can imagine Hitler’s surprise, when, after acting on precisely what elites in America and England had long been advocating for, he was perceived as …

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Frederick Taylor and the Connection Between Eugenics, Capitalism, and Communism: Scientific Management

Filed under 1911, 1915, American Eugenics, Andrew Carnegie, August Weismann, Bolshevism, communism, compulsory education, compulsory sterilization, Darwinism, education, Edward L. Thorndike, Edwin Black, Efficiency Movement, Eugenicist Profiles, eugenics, Eugenics Essays, Frederick Taylor, Friedrich Engels, German, German Eugenics, Germany, Hitler, Holocaust, hygiene, John Rockefeller, John Taylor Gatto, Joseph Dejarnette, Karl Marx, Madison Grant, Marxism, Nazis, Nuremberg, Origin of the Species, philanthropy, progress, Progressive Era, Progressives, public school, race hygiene, Richard Stites, Richard Weikart, science, Scientific Management, scientific world view, scientism, segregation camps, social body, socialism, Soviet Union, Stephan Chorover, Taylorism, The Passing of the Great Race, the State, V. L. Komarov

Buy “Scientific Management” on Amazon | Kindle | Nook Frederick Taylor and the Connection Between Eugenics, Capitalism, and Communism: Scientific Management Frederick Winslow Taylor has blood on his hands. Judging from the reaction typical of those familiar with Taylor’s work, the idea that he, or at least, his ideas, were complicit in any great crimes …

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The Obstacle of Sentiment and Sentimentalists to Pure Scientific Application

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One of the common themes that surfaces in eugenic writings is their annoyance that others do not act on the logical implications of Science. Note that, in the main, they are not taking issue with people who do not agree with their conclusions, but rather those who do agree–but will not act on them. This …

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Category: 1915

Helen Keller: Physicians Juries for Defective Babies, Article in the New Republic, 1915

Mass Extermination and ‘Lethal Chambers’ Widely Considered by Eugenicists in America, England, and Germay

The Obstacle of Sentiment and Sentimentalists to Pure Scientific Application

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Helen Keller: Physicians Juries for Defective Babies, Article in the New Republic, 1915

The Eugenic Roots of Genetic Counseling

Mass Extermination and ‘Lethal Chambers’ Widely Considered by Eugenicists in America, England, and Germay

Frederick Taylor and the Connection Between Eugenics, Capitalism, and Communism: Scientific Management

The Obstacle of Sentiment and Sentimentalists to Pure Scientific Application

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