Psychiatry is Edging Dangerously Close to Eugenics
quinta-feira, 11 de maio de 2017
Psychiatry is Edging Dangerously Close to Eugenics
https://www.madinamerica.com/2016/07/psychiatry-is-edging-dangerously-close-to-eugenics/
Eugenics was a powerful movement in England, the United States and
Nazi Germany from the late nineteenth century until 1945. The basic
belief was that bad, ‘degenerate’ genes were the cause of problems in
society, and the solution was to cleanse the gene pool. Eugenics receded
from the world stage after Germany lost World War II. In its most
extreme form, in Germany, it was the rationale for the Holocaust – the
killing of Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and schizophrenics. We’re talking
6 million murders. In the United States there were massive programs of
forced sterilization. Traits that were seen as infecting the gene pool
were poverty, feeble-mindedness, alcoholism, rebelliousness,
criminality, prostitution, manic-depression, and schizophrenia. 60,000
forced sterilizations took place.
