Science and Medical Ethics
Includes genetics, forced sterilization, and other science issues.
Science and Medical Ethics
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"Three Generations of Imbeciles"? Critics of forced sterilization laws believed that they violated rights guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution. In 1924, eugenicists and their supporters decided to find out if the laws were constitutional. To do so, they needed someone who could challenge the law in the courts. They chose Carrie Buck of Virginia. At the age of 17 years old, she was pregnant and unmarried. Her mother, Emma, an inmate at the Lynchburg Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded, was rumored to have been a prostitute. |
Publication Readings | January 3, 2012 |
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Eugenics, Race, and Marriage In challenging students to choose a mate carefully, the author of The New Civic Biology (Reading 1) implied that it was an individual choice. And for some individuals like the young men from Michigan described in the reading, it was. In other parts of the United States, the government had a voice in that decision, as Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter would discover. |
Publication Readings | January 3, 2012 |
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Finding a Scapegoat When Epidemics Strike In a New York Times essay titled “Finding a Scapegoat When Epidemics Strike,” Donald G. McNeil Jr. looks at how, throughout history, some group always seems to get blamed for the spread of a pandemic disease. Dr. Liise-anne Pirofski, chief of infectious diseases at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, explained that “ ‘when disease strikes and humans suffer . . . the need to understand why is very powerful. |
Facing Today | September 29, 2009 |
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Gattaca 107 minutes |
Library Resource | December 15, 2009 |
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In the Shadow of the Reich: Nazi Medicine 54 minutes This documentary studies the step-by-step process that led the medical profession in the Third Reich down an unethical road to genocide. It graphically documents the racial theories and eugenics principles that set the stage for the doctors' participation in sterilization and euthanasia, the selections at the death camps, as well as inhuman and unethical human experimentation. It provides the historical basis for many current dilemmas in bio-ethical work. |
Library Resource | December 15, 2009 |
| Paul Farmer on Preventing Poverty and Disease | Video Clip | December 2, 2010 |
| Paul Farmer Talks about People Who Don't Want Help | Video Clip | December 2, 2010 |
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Race and Membership in American History: The Eugenics Movement Race and Membership in American History: The Eugenics Movement focuses on a time in the early 1900s when many people believed that some "races," classes, and individuals were superior to others. They used a new branch of scientific inquiry known as eugenics to justify their prejudices and advocate programs and policies aimed at solving the nation's problems by ridding society of "inferior racial traits."
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Library Resource | February 1, 2010 |
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The Ascent of Man: Knowledge or Certainty 52 minutes, color |
Library Resource | December 15, 2009 |
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The Eugenics Movement in New England 20 minutes This episode of the news magazine Chronicle explores the history of the Eugenics movement in New England. |
Library Resource | December 15, 2009 |
