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Currently, in the health care setting, patients are protected from involuntary acts of eugenics through laws that require doctor's to get the patient's full consent for all procedures done. Further, if a doctor fails to get such consent, they can be held liable under the malpractice laws of torts.
Eugenics and Immigration
Eugenics has also played a historical role in immigration and immigration reform during the twentieth century. Staring with the passage of the Immigration Act of 1924, eugenics was called on to play a central role in the congressional policy debate as to the allegedly "inferior stock" of immigrants coming from eastern and southern Europe.
Typically, eugenics as it applies to immigration reform deals with placing limits on the number of immigrants allowed from certain races, ethnicities or geographic locations. This practice is considered to be eugenics as it is used to systematically control or eliminate a specific population from the make up of the population of the nation enacting the legislation.
The Immigration Act of 1924, for example, reduced the number of immigrants from abroad to fifteen percent in order to control the number of so-called "unfit" individuals from entering the United States. The Immigration Act of 1924 was...
The most desirable were of Anglo-Saxon and Nordic backgrounds and the least desirable being Chinese and Japanese immigrants.
Conclusion
As can be seen, eugenics has, and continues to play, numerous roles in the development of human societies and communities. From the horrors of genocide to its use in medicine as a method of eliminating potentially dangerous genes to its continued role in the immigration debate, eugenics is far from being a theory or practice of the past.
V. Bibliography:
Downes, Lawrence. "What Part of Illegal Don't You Understand?" New York Times.
Engs, Ruth C. (2005): The Eugenics Movement: An Encyclopedia. Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group.
Glad, John. (2007): Future Human Evolution: Eugenics in the Twenty-First Century. Hermitage Publishers.
Kevles, Daniel. (1985): In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity. New York: Knopf.
Bibliography:
Downes, Lawrence. "What Part of Illegal Don't You Understand?" New York Times.
Engs, Ruth C. (2005): The Eugenics Movement: An Encyclopedia. Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group.
Glad, John. (2007): Future Human Evolution: Eugenics in the Twenty-First Century. Hermitage Publishers.
Kevles, Daniel. (1985): In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity. New York: Knopf.
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