Unpacking the Dark Side of Darwinism and Eugenics
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Oct 17, 2024, 11:21:12 AMOct 17
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Unpacking the Dark Side of Darwinism and Eugenics
The concept of Darwinism led to the development of theories on born prostitutes and born criminals, championed by Italian criminal anthropologist Cesare Lombroso. Many viewed eugenics as a practical solution to societal issues. The idea of degeneracy, or retrogressive evolution, gained widespread acceptance after the introduction of Darwinian evolution in science and was used to explain criminality, poverty, disability, mental illness, and physical and intellectual disability. European psychiatrists and physicians working in asylums and prisons promoted this concept, supplanting earlier theories of phrenology and moral insanity. In America, Richard Dugdale's 1877 study on the Jukes family preceded Henry Goddard's work on the Kallikaks, documenting degeneracy across generations. While Goddard advocated for forced sterilization, Dugdale believed environmental changes could alter degeneracy. However, his ideas were exploited by the burgeoning eugenics movement, which supported sterilization and execution of individuals deemed to have inferior heredity, laying the groundwork for criminal anthropology. The Darwinian theory of evolution has a history of notorious intention and origin in Europe to establish their race as superior to all others. These points must be well discussed because this theory is still given much importance in science despite having no substantial empirical evidence to support its far-reaching claims.
The concept of Darwinism led to the development of theories on born prostitutes and born criminals, championed by Italian criminal anthropologist Cesare Lombroso. Many viewed eugenics as a practical solution to societal issues. The idea of degeneracy, or retrogressive evolution, gained widespread acceptance after the introduction of Darwinian evolution in science and was used to explain criminality, poverty, disability, mental illness, and physical and intellectual disability. European psychiatrists and physicians working in asylums and prisons promoted this concept, supplanting earlier theories of phrenology and moral insanity. In America, Richard Dugdale's 1877 study on the Jukes family preceded Henry Goddard's work on the Kallikaks, documenting degeneracy across generations. While Goddard advocated for forced sterilization, Dugdale believed environmental changes could alter degeneracy. However, his ideas were exploited by the burgeoning eugenics movement, which supported sterilization and execution of individuals deemed to have inferior heredity, laying the groundwork for criminal anthropology. The Darwinian theory of evolution has a history of notorious intention and origin in Europe to establish their race as superior to all others. These points must be well discussed because this theory is still given much importance in science despite having no substantial empirical evidence to support its far-reaching claims.
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