CRM 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Positivism, Leilani Muir, Eugenics
15 Apr 2016
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The sterilizaion of leilani muir: (quesions like this on inal) How are biological/psychological/physiological posiivism"s 20th century soluions : problemaic. Goddard"s photos were retouched to appear sinister or dumb. In 1928 sterilizaion act became law they believed that in god"s plan they were helping the individual, the community move towards a new. Child in mind and body is destroyed. Sent to other villas as punishments people put in iny cement rooms with a matress and a iny window in the door refusal to clean up human waste was put aside. Never convicted of any crimes but felt like prisoners rights were taken away from them. Classiicaions used to deny educaional rights, general rights and freedom. Led to massive campaign in germany for sterilizaion. The prevenion of geneically determined disease is a moral conlict. Over 400,000 germans were sterilized in the 1930s most of them in gas chambers.
