Eugenics

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Overview:

The main idea of this source is everything about eugenics. This website explains and defines eugenics and how it was created to help improve human hereditary traits. It also clearly explains how eugenics was used to accomplish goals such as, to be healthier, more intelligent, save resources, and to have less humans suffering.

Argument:

            In this source we see different ideas such as the image of the tree. In this web page we see that the tree is represented as the logo of eugenics. The tree’s roots shows and names of the different fields in science and shows how they all united to form this big tree, the grown tree being eugenics. The eugenics logo was created in the Second International Congress of Eugenics in 1921. In this web page the author discusses that some of the main reasons eugenics was done was to avoid birth control, certain marriage restrictions, to control immigration, and for segregation of race and of mental ill people.  In order to avoid those reasons from occurring they would sterilize people or force them to abort. The author does also explain the different types of eugenic methods which were mandatory, promotional and private eugenics. The mandatory was the eugenics that was done forced by the government, promotional was the eugenics done voluntarily and promoted to the people and private eugenics was also done voluntarily the only difference from promotional eugenics was that private eugenics wasn’t promoted to the people.  The source also goes to explain the three different goals that were set for eugenics. The first goal he mentions is intrinsic eugenics which was a good type of eugenic that was used to improve the genetics of people or to benefit the physical and mental health, as well as the reproductive ability and intelligence of people.  The second goal mentioned is racial eugenics which was use to specifically breed those of a particular race or races. The final goal mention is extrinsic social eugenics which was very selective on breeding only those of high class with wealth, good school, popularity, personality and college degree. This source specifically focuses on giving a more of an          in-depth background information on eugenics, going into the history and actions that were be taken by eugenics such as racial actions or putting behind the ill ones.

Source:

            There is no specific author on this website but there is in-text citations and bibliography page that does give credit to the webpage. This source isn’t an arguing document but much more of a historical document that gives great in depth history of different ways that eugenics was being used. Also giving us who came up with eugenics and how eugenics was created for good and resulted in mostly being used for the bad.