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The Eugenics Survey of Vermont was a survey that gathered biological, familial, and social information of Vermonters in order to further eugenic policies in the state. [1] The survey existed from 1925-1936 and resulted in the sterilization of at least 250 Vermonters, most of them women. [ 2 ]
Birth control movement in the US; Canadian Eugenics The Famous Five. Sexual Sterilization Act; Japanese eugenics; Hispanic eugenics. Mexican eugenics; Swedish sterilization program (1906–1975) Peruvian sterilization program (1990–2000) Population planning in Singapore; Neo-eugenics. He Jiankui genome editing incident; Human genetic enhancement
A 1930s exhibit by the Eugenics Society.Some of the signs read "Healthy and Unhealthy Families", "Heredity as the Basis of Efficiency" and "Marry Wisely".Eugenics (/ j uː ˈ dʒ ɛ n ɪ k s / yoo-JEN-iks; from Ancient Greek εύ̃ (eû) 'good, well' and -γενής (genḗs) 'born, come into being, growing/grown') [1] is a set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality ...
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Birth control movement in the US; Canadian Eugenics The Famous Five. Sexual Sterilization Act; Japanese eugenics; Hispanic eugenics. Mexican eugenics; Swedish sterilization program (1906–1975) Peruvian sterilization program (1990–2000) Population planning in Singapore; Neo-eugenics. He Jiankui genome editing incident; Human genetic enhancement
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 body ...
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“We Were Dangerous” is a surprisingly funny film for a movie whose central conflict is the sterilization of a group of young women on the fringes of society in 1950s New Zealand. Knowing the ...