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Eugenics - Sterilization Laws

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Ethics
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Harry H. Laughlin
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Buck v. Bell
Leilani Muir
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Sterilization Laws Sterilizations were performed before the surgery was legally approved Indiana enacted the first law allowing sterilization on eugenic ground in 1907 Connecticut followed soon after Sterilization did not gain widespread popular approval until the late 1920s Advocacy in favor of sterilization was one of Harry Laughlin?s first major projects at the ERO In 1914, he published a Model Eugenical Sterilization Law Proposed to authorize sterilization of the ?socially inadequate? Included ?feebleminded, insane, criminalistic, epileptic, inebriate, diseased, blind, dead, deformed, and dependent? ?orphans, ne?er-do-wells, tramps, the homeless and paupers? 12 states had already enacted sterilization laws

Eugenics - Traits Studied

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Charles Davenport
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Eugenics ? Traits Studied Charles Davenport was the director of three institutions based at Cold Spring Harbor ? the ERO, the Biological Laboratory, and the Carnegie Institute of Washington?s Station for Experimental Evolution He noted in his 1909 Annual Report that the inability to conduct controlled experiments ruled out human genetics as a suitable topic for the Station for Experimental Evolution He and his wife published 4 papers between 1907 and 1910 that applied Mendelian principles to the human inheritance of eye color, hair color, hair texture and pigmentation The paper on skin pigmentation made the first reference to polygenic inheritance ? a trait influenced by two or more genes The eye color paper relied on data supplied by ?school principals and other friends?
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