The increasing understanding of genetics, advancement of genetic/genomic technologies, and availability of genetic/genomic testing have increased the demand for genetic counselors and resulted in a significant growth and expansion of our profession. While coursework on genetics/…
This study investigates the use of coded racism in the evolution of fertility control policies from the 1920s to the 1990s. I propose a theory of welfare eugenics that explains stigmatization of the fertility of poor, racial and ethnic minorities through a re-articulation of ove…
The dissertation examines the development of assisted reproduction in American medicine and culture between the first reported use of artificial insemination in the late eighteenth century and the birth of the modern cryobanking industry at the end of the twentieth century. It f…
The accepted version of the history of eugenics - put forward by Kevles, Allen and Barkan amongst others - is that the example of Nazi eugenics contributed to the decline of the eugenics movement in the USA. This dissertation challenges that view and argues that Nazism was irrel…
The American woman is the leader of the awakened social conscience in a country-wide crusade to build a better race, declared Progressive reformer Mabel Potter Daggett in 1912.\sp1 Between 1900 and 1960, this "country-wide crusade" to strengthen family and civilization by regula…
Managing Death: Diagnosing the "New " Eugenics in Canadian Legal Discourses and Narratives of Disability, examines how three twentieth-century Canadian legal cases---Henry Morgentaler, Sue Rodriguez, and Robert Latimer---inform and problematize Canada's concept of itself as a li…
This dissertation examines the relationship between medicine and social control through the lens of eugenics in 1930s Istanbul. Depending on the biographies, autobiographies, and obituaries of the doctors, the analysis starts with an inquiry into the social and professional netw…
