DBST 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Anemia, Spina Bifida, Louise Mckinney

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Disability Studies
• Course: DBST 1001
• Professor: Zainab Amery

Document Summary

Eugenics was about perfection of the human race. Restricted the reproduction of the elements of the population that were considered disabled or abnormal. Common viewpoint until mid 20th century even in canada. Inherently developed by galton and social darwinism which distorted the notion of the survival of the fittest into the ultimate goals of the eugenics movement. First international eugenics conference met in london in 1912, presided over by. Attendees include winston churchill, alexander graham bell, and sir william osler. 1880"s-1930s and beyond: eugenic policy to sterilize certain mental health patients in the us, belgium, brazil, canada, sweden and others. Nazi germany: racial hygiene", human experimentation and extermination. Australia: separation of mixed-race aboriginal children from their aboriginal families. Usa: bans on marriage, sexual relations of the eugenically unfit. " forced sterilisations carried out. Canada: eugenic laws kept in place until 1972. By 1933 both alberta and british columbia had eugenic sterilization laws.