portada Eugenics and Protestant Social Reform (en Inglés)

Eugenics and Protestant Social Reform (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Dennis Durst

Editorial

Pickwick Publications

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

218

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.6x15x1.5 cm

Peso

0.29 kg.

ISBN13

9781532605772

Categorías

Sociedad y cultura: general
Historia de la ciencia
Historia de la religión
Cristianismo

Eugenics and Protestant Social Reform (en Inglés)

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The eugenics movement prior to the Second World War gave voice to the desire of many social reformers to promote good births and prevent bad births. Two sources of cultural authority in this period, science and religion, often found common cause in the promotion of eugenics. The rhetoric of biology and theology blended in strange ways through a common framework known as degeneration theory. Degeneration, a core concept of the eugenics movement, served as a key conceptual nexus between theological and scientific reflection on heredity among Protestant intellectuals and social reformers in the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. Elite efforts at social control of the allegedly "unfit" took the form of negative eugenics. This included marriage restrictions and even sterilization for many who were identified as having a suspect heredity. Speculations on heredity were deployed in identifying the feeble-minded, hereditary criminals, hereditary alcoholics, and racial minorities as presumed hindrances to the progress of civilization. A few social reformers trained in biology, anthropology, criminology, and theology eventually raised objections to the eugenics movement. Still, many thousands of citizens on the margins were labeled as defectives and suffered human rights violations during this turbulent time of social change.