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Manufacturer: Vintage
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 363.9209730904
EAN: 9780375713057
ISBN: 0375713050
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: 2007-04-10
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: 2007-04-10
Studio: Vintage
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Summary: Eugenics was a protestant, jewish, left & feminist's business
Comment: I read this book, here in Brazil.This book is easy to read.Compared to "War against the weak" by Edwin Black, this book is smaller and a little better.
To example, while "War against the weak" didn't told that the famous american eugenicist Charles B. Davenport hadn't any grandson, this book shows that even having two daughters, both of his daughters had no child.
Even so, this book repeats many of the same mistakes made by Edwin Black's book "War against the weak".Some examples of these same mistakes are:
1-Even showing , about eugenics,the right way of catholics and the wrong way by protestants and jews, this book doesn't tells why among eugenics, religion decided so many.Support of eugenics was almost universal among famous jews and protestants in USA; at least until when Hitler came to power, in 1933.At the same times, Roman Catholic Church was eugenics' number one foe in USA.This book didn't tells that while Roman Catholicism had (and has) a Pope, protestants and jews were "following the bible", when they supported the eugenics.Such as happened during witch-hunting and slavery's times, many famous and powerfull people found on bible, support for eugenics.At the same times, there was not just one eugenics, even in USA there was hundreds of eugenics, while having tens of judaisms and hundreds of protestantisms.Jews and protestants saw on eugenics, such as a a mirror of his own religious believes.Only the opposition from Pope, priests and bishops didn't explained why eugenics was ever a failure, among catholic countries.Divorce existed in France and Italy, since XIX Century (both more than 90% catholics at eugenics's time).Eugenics was a godless religion, having many sects, even in USA.
2-Such as on Edwin Black's book, this book has too many space, about both Dr. Laughlin and Charles B. Davenport.They were both neurothic and crooks, but they were following orders from rich and powerfull americans; many of them jews.When in Hitler's times(1933-1945), they became useless both went to fame to nothing in a few years.About Laughlin's family, on page 180, this book writes:"Kirksville was the home of Andrew Taylor Still the visionary healer whose eccentric treatment methods physical manipulations to improve the body's natural functions." on same page 180:"Earl attended the osteopathic college".Well, osteopathy wasn't a type of medicine , but only quackery.Harry Laughlin's family was linked to quackery, but this book forgets this thing.
3-Too many american doctors of both sexes, were among eugenics's leaders.This same happended in every country where eugenics existed.Well, why this happened in USA and all the world?Because medicine was next to useless in eugenics' times.Even so, some decades before eugenics' creation, the doctors had replaced the pastors and religious leaders as God's preachers among people's minds.They were maily useless, but the people wanted something to believe.Having no medicine for the desiases, they told that eugenics was the solution, for medical and social problems in USA and many other protestants countries.
4-The same rich and powerfull americans who gave money, to Lenin, Russian Revolution and Hitler were also famous eugenicists.This book forgets this fact.
5-Feminism in America was deeply linked to eugenics.There's almost nothing about feminism in this book.
6-After World War II, eugneics became "population control" or neo-malthusianism in USA.Just one line of this book is about this very important fact.
This book is better than "War Against the weak" , but it remains a little weak many times.
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Summary: A Very Interesting Read
Comment: From the first page of Bruinius' book you are transported into the past, to the chilly halls where history was made. The book is a great read. It goes beyond what many books on this subject does...it does not just tell the history but makes you feel it. The story of Lucille touches your heart and shows you just how deeply forced sterilization affected those who lived through it. It also gives you a haunting and fascinating insight into those who pushed for sterilization in order to create a "superior race" and the ironies and difficulties of their own lives. It delves deep into the history of this issue and with a compelling narrative, makes Better For All The World one of the best books on the subject.
I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Wait for Lombardo's book
Comment: Paul Lombardo, a leading scholar on bioethics and eugenics, is working
on a book on this same topic. According to his bio page, the working
title is "Better for All the World: Eugenics, the Supreme Court and
Buck v. Bell." I'm guessing professor Lombardo will have to change the
title of the book now that Bruinius has published one with the same
name, but whatever he calls it, it will be worth the wait. Lombardo's
previous work on eugenics is brilliant and Bruinius' is, well,
anything but.
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Summary: best book on eugenics
Comment: This book combines a remarkable insight into the background of the arrogant little gods who would have gladly become evolutions agents, sterilizing, segregating, and who know what else.
Its analysis of the weakness of the Nuremburg prosecution that couldn't face the "modernity" of the Nazi eugenicists. He makes the connections that needed to be made.
Davenport and Loughlin and their ilk were not at the fringe of progressive America they were at its heart.
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Summary: Important History In Regards To Today's Eugenics Push
Comment: Book describes the loss of human dignity when creating a superior race and nation through better breeding concepts. The history of eugenics and its belief system shares startling similarities with the secular scientific views on biotechnology, genetics, and reproduction today.
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A timely and gripping history of the controversial eugenics movement in America–and the scientists, social reformers and progressives who supported it.
In Better for All the World, Harry Bruinius charts the little known history of eugenics in America–a movement that began in the early twentieth century and resulted in the forced sterilization of more than 65,000 people. Bruinius tells the stories of Emma and Carrie Buck, two women trapped in poverty who became the test case in the 1927 supreme court decision allowing forced sterilization for those deemed unfit to procreate. From the reformers who turned local charities into government-run welfare systems promoting social and moral purity, to the influence the American policies had on Nazi Germany’s development of “racial hygiene,” Bruinius masterfully exposes the players and legislation behind one of America’s darkest secrets.
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