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In 1909 a eugenics law was passed in California allowing for state institutions to sterilize those deemed "unfit" or "feeble-minded". [12] The Asexualization Act authorized the involuntary sterilization of certain groups of people, including inmates of state hospitals, certain institutionalized people, life-sentenced prisoners, repeat offenders of certain sexual offenses, or simply repeat ...
Contents. Eugenics in the United States. Eugenics, the set of beliefs and practices which aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population, [ 1 ][ 2 ] played a significant role in the history and culture of the United States from the late 19th century into the mid-20th century. [ 3 ]
Henry Herbert Goddard (August 14, 1866 – June 18, 1957) was an American psychologist, eugenicist, and segregationist during the early 20th century. He is known especially for his 1912 work The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness, [2] which he himself came to regard as flawed for its ahistoric depiction of the titular family, and for translating the Binet-Simon ...
Charles Goethe. Charles Matthias Goethe (March 28, 1875 – July 10, 1966) [1] was an American eugenicist, entrepreneur, land developer, philanthropist, conservationist, founder of the Eugenics Society of Northern California, and a native and lifelong resident of Sacramento, California.
eugenicist. Known for. Advocating eugenics and compulsory sterilization. Ezra Seymour Gosney (November 6, 1855 – September 14, 1942) was an American businessman and philanthropist who supported the practice of eugenics. In 1928 he founded the Human Betterment Foundation (HBF) in Pasadena, California, with the stated aim "to foster and aid ...
The California genocide was a series of systematized killings of thousands of Indigenous people of California by United States government agents and private citizens in the 19th century. It began following the American Conquest of California from Mexico, and the influx of settlers due to the California Gold Rush, which accelerated the decline ...
Madrigal v. Quilligan was a federal class action lawsuit from Los Angeles County, California, involving sterilization of Latina women that occurred either without informed consent, or through coercion. [1] Although the judge ruled in favor of the doctors, the case led to better informed consent for patients, especially those who are not native ...
1938 HBF pamphlet titled "Human Sterilization Today" The Human Betterment Foundation (HBF) was an American eugenics organization established in Pasadena, California in 1928 by E. S. Gosney and Rufus B. von KleinSmid, President of the University of Southern California, with the aim "to foster and aid constructive and educational forces for the protection and betterment of the human family in ...