CRM 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Leilani Muir, Natural Selection

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 1301
• Professor: Christine Gervais

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Iq tests are culturally based: basically made decisions for who lives and who dies , asked for consent of the patient, but the punishment for denying the actions of the eugenics movement were devastating. Stopped getting consent in 1937 when the government believed that the movement was going too slowly. How are biological/psychological/psychological positivism"s 20th century solutions intrusive: physically. Restrained in straight jackets in complete isolation if they attempted to leave/get help to leave. Never told about the surgeries, but if they were they were told they were having a minor surgery, which they did have, but they were also sterilized at the same time. Insides looked as thought [they] had been through a slaughterhouse . Approximately 30 young men with down syndrome in the. 1950s were forced to undergo testicular biopsy: emotionally. Were never given a choice in the matter. There is no monetary amount that can compensate for the trauma they went through.