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Eugenics and Its Shadow: Edit Carrie Buck

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(original) She died a month later at age eight of enteric colitis, an intestinal disease.[1]

(edit) In June 1932, at the age of eight, Vivian contracted measles. She died from a secondary intestinal infection, enteric colitis. [1][2]

Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy: Treatments and Management

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No cure currently exists for CTE.[3] Patients with suspected CTE-related symptoms may receive non-pharmacologic and pharmacologic treatments to improve their quality of life.[4]

Negro project: Eugenic Controversy

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There is controversy over whether the Negro Project was eugenic in nature. Eugenics, which is a discredited scientific movement, sought to advance the human race through selective reproduction, i.e. through promoting the reproduction of the genetically “fit” while impeding reproduction of those deemed genetically "inferior." [5][6] Some scholars view the Negro Project as an attempt to suppress reproduction amongst blacks, who by eugenic standards were deemed genetically unfit for reproduction.[7][6] Additionally, some scholars cite the involvement of fellow eugenicists such as Clarence J. Gamble, future president of the Pathfinder International, in the history of the project as evidence for its eugenic intent.[7] Additionally, some of the language used in Sanger's proposals for the Negro Project is borrowed from African American social and political activist W.E.B. DuBois who himself was a eugenicist (through his promotion of concepts like the Talented Tenth and Racial Uplift) and advocate of birth control use within the black population.[8][7][9] However, defenders of Sanger deny racial motivation in her desire to provide black Americans with access to contraception, asserting that quotes from Sanger are often misinterpreted as racist and her intentions misconstrued.[10]

Though predominantly known for her leading role in the American birth control movement, Sanger was also dedicated to the American eugenics movement.[11] The principal goal of eugenics, a movement founded on pseudo-scientific laws of genetic inheritance and determinism, was to the advance Sanger was a subscriber to eugenic ideology and advocated for the use of birth control as a means to advance the eugenic agenda, penning so in her 1921 article “The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda,” written for the Birth Control Review.[11][12] As such, Sanger's motivation in creating the Negro Project is a topic of controversy and debate.

References

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  1. ^ a b Gould, Stephen Jay (July 1984). "Carrie Buck's Daughter" (PDF). Natural History. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
  2. ^ Lombardo, Paul A. (2008). Three generations, no imbeciles : eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 190. ISBN 9780801890109. OCLC 195763255.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ "Alzheimer's & Dementia". Alzheimer's Association. alz.org. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
  4. ^ Cantu, Robert; Budson, Andrew (Oct 2019). "Management of chronic traumatic encephalopathy". Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics. 19: 1015–1023. doi:10.1080/14737175.2019.1633916.
  5. ^ Levine, Philippa (2017). Eugenics: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199385904.
  6. ^ a b Selden, Steven (2005). "Transforming Better Babies into Fitter Families: Archival Resources and the History of the American Eugenics Movement, 1908-1930". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 149 (2): 199–225. ISSN 0003-049X.
  7. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference :3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference :02 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ ""Negroes and Birth Control," by W.E.B. DuBois, April 1939 (reprint) · Smith Libraries Exhibits". libex.smith.edu. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  10. ^ Valenza, Charles (1985). "Was Margaret Sanger a Racist?". Family Planning Perspectives. 17 (1): 44–46. doi:10.2307/2135230. ISSN 0014-7354.
  11. ^ a b Franks, Angela (2005-01-24). Margaret Sanger's Eugenic Legacy: The Control of Female Fertility. McFarland. ISBN 9780786420117.
  12. ^ "The Public Papers of Margaret Sanger: Web Edition". www.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2019-11-16.