1.What are the connections between the eugenic program advanced in the United St

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1.What are the connections between the eugenic program advanced in the United States and the Nazi Holocaust? What are some of the common ideological points that bring the two together?
2.Do you think that eugenicists’ methods of gathering data were scientific? Why or Why not?
3.What are the connections between scientific understanding of how the world works and policy decisions about how the world should work?
4.How does the understanding of heredity at the turn of the 20th century compare to our understanding at the turn of the 21st?
5.What are some of the policy issues that have that have arisen from our more recent understanding of heredity?

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1) Eugenics includes set of beliefs that aim to improve the genetic quality of group of individuals. Eugenics may be positive or negative. In positive eugenics, people with benificial traits are allowed to have more children and in negative eugenics, people with non-benificial traits like mental illness were sterilised. Eugenics program spread to Germany from United States.

Negative eugenics was practised in California and Nazi Germany. Forceful sterilisation of the 'defectives' was performed in both californis and Nazi Germany. The common ideological points that brought them together was to improve the genetic quality of population by practising euthanasia, forceful sterilisation, preventing the migration of disabled persons into the country and lethal neglect of persons affected from certain diseases like tuberculosis.

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