The Eugenics Movement In the History of American Medicine
Bernard Pyron
This is mostly quotes from sources on the American Eugenics movement
and its influence upon American medical doctors and nurses.
Out of a crude 19th century science of genetics came genetic
determinism - and the Eugenics movement came out of this in the late
19th century. Out of the Eugenics movement came the 1973 Supreme
Court decision to legalize abortion. The Eugenics movement, along
with the influence of the financial elite in the late 19th century,
had an early influence on the American medical culture. Doctors and
nurses now think that genetics are more important than recent hard
science in human genetics shows it to be. Eugenics was and still is a
part of the ideology of the financial elite. It manifests as use of
anything to reduce population and reduce the birth rate.
keep the laces from frazzling. Every time a cell divides its telomeres
are shortened. But an enzyme named telomerase can rebuild the lost
telomeres as ends of the chromosomes, and some research has been
focused on what contributes to the production of telomerase.
Theoretically, telomere length can be a predictor of aging.
But in the more recent "hard science" of human genetics a series of experiments has produced an understanding of aspects of human genetics far more advanced than Charles Darwin's theory of evolution of the genetics of John Dalton of the 19th century. Dalton was a forerunner of the medical Eugenics movement which began in the late 19th century.
Elizabeth H. Blackburn, at the University of California, San
Francisco, was one of the pioneer researchers in genetics who focused
on telomere length and its relationship to chronic diseases
like cancer, and heart disease.
The research of Blackburn and others, including some Ph.D. psychologists
whose none I don't have now, developed a line of studies showing that
at least three main factors determine chromosome telomere length, some
nutrients, exercise and stress reduction. Their theoretical model
says if you don't get these nutrients, don't exercise and have high
stress you don't live as long.
Elizabeth Blackburn was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, sharing it with Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak, for their pioneering work on factors contributing to Telemere Length. Some Ph.D psychologists also worked on Telemere Length and factors involved in it. Psychologists did at least one study published in 2014 on Telemere length related to cortisol levels, an indicator of stress.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States
"Eugenics (is) the social movement claiming to improve the genetic
features of human populations through selective breeding and
sterilization, based on the idea that it is possible to distinguish
between superior and inferior elements of society..."
"The American eugenics movement was rooted in the biological
determinist ideas of Sir Francis Galton, which originated in the
1880s. Galton studied the upper classes of Britain, and arrived at the
conclusion that their social positions were due to a superior genetic
makeup. Early proponents of eugenics believed that, through
selective breeding, the human species should direct its own evolution.
They tended to believe in the genetic superiority of Nordic, Germanic
and Anglo-Saxon peoples; supported strict immigration and
anti-miscegenation laws; and supported the forcible sterilization of
the poor, disabled and "immoral".
See: http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/eugenics.aspx
"The acknowledged leader of American eugenics, Charles Davenport,
received his Ph.D. from Harvard, taught at the University of
Chicago..." Harvard has been a major university for the training of
intellectuals who work in support of the elites.
http://www.emmerich1.com/EUGENICS.htm
"Eugenics has had a religious dimension. Galton suggested that it
should function as a religion, and this proposal was echoed by George
Bernard Shaw, Bertrand Russel and others. In the United States shortly
after the turn of the century, the American Journal of Eugenics
advertised itself by noting that it was "formerly known as Lucifer the
Light Bearer."
MEDICAL EUGENICS WAS FUNDED AND PROMOTED BY THE TOP FINANCIAL ELITE
"The American eugenics movement received extensive funding from
various corporate foundations including the Carnegie Institution,
Rockefeller Foundation, and the Harriman railroad fortune.[6] In 1906
J.H. Kellogg provided funding to help found the Race Betterment
Foundation in Battle Creek, Michigan."
In the book, Rockefeller Medicine Men: Medicine and Capitalism In
AMERICA, 1979, by E. Richard Brown, he says the current problems in
the U.S. health care system are due to the "marriage of modern
medicine to corporate capitalism."
"In the early years of the 20th century, Brown says that because
medical technology was expensive, doctors turned to the financial
elite for money. The Rockefeller family supplied a large part of the
money to fund medical technology, as well as medical research and
medical schools."
"Rockefeller University began in 1901 as the Rockefeller Institute for
medical Research. It began giving doctor's degrees in 1957. And the
Rockefeller University Hospital does basic as well as applied medical
research."
http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/rockroth.html
This site presents Chapter Ten of Murder By Injection, 1988, by Eustace Mullins.
Mullins says "...the Rockefeller Medical Monopoly attained control of
the health care of the nation."
In his 1988 book, Murder By Injection, Mullins says the Rockefellers,
with the help of the American Medical Association, gained control of
the U.S. Health Care System. He says the Rockefeller Education Board
spent more than $100 million to gain control of the U.S. medical
schools and thereby to turn United States doctors into allopathic
physicians using drugs and surgery.
The Rockefellers were involved in the pharmaceutical drug industry and
helped to make American doctors into highly paid salesmen for
prescription drugs. Perhaps the Rockefellers and others in the ruling
elite helped give high status to American doctors, making them members
of the ruling class, to help fool the people into accepting the drugs
they promoted as "cures" for many diseases. After all, a highly
respected doctor with much image must know what he is doing in
prescribing drugs.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/armageddon-or-newage/messages?o=1
According to this web site a Rockefeller in the 1950's advocated
putting mercury into vaccines. Mercury can have harmful effects upon
the health of people who receive vaccines.
The financial elite, especially the Rockefellers, made the American
medical profession into a top-down system, where local doctors are
controlled from the top of society, the financial and corporate
elites. The Eugenics movement was a part of that financial and
corporate elite, a movement that in the top-down system influenced the
culture of American doctors and nurses.
THE CALIFORNIA EUGENICS MOVEMENT SPREAD TO HITLER'S NAZI GERMANY
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States
"After the eugenics movement was well established in the United
States, it spread to Germany. California eugenicists began producing
literature promoting eugenics and sterilization and sending it
overseas to German scientists and medical professionals. By 1933,
California had subjected more people to forceful sterilization than
all other U.S. states combined. The forced sterilization program
engineered by the Nazis was partly inspired by California's."
"The Rockefeller Foundation helped develop and fund various German
eugenics programs, including the one that Josef Mengele worked in
before he went to Auschwitz."
EUTHANASIA AS A METHOD FOR POPULATION MANIPULATION
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States
"One of the methods that was commonly suggested to get rid of
"inferior" populations was euthanasia. A 1911 Carnegie Institute
report mentioned euthanasia as one of its recommended "solutions" to
the problem of cleansing society of unfit genetic attributes. The most
commonly suggested method was to set up local gas chambers. However,
many in the eugenics movement did not believe that Americans were
ready to implement a large-scale euthanasia program, so many doctors
had to find clever ways of subtly implementing eugenic euthanasia in
various medical institutions. For example, a mental institution in
Lincoln, Illinois fed its incoming patients milk infected with
tuberculosis (reasoning that genetically fit individuals would be
resistant), resulting in 30-40% annual death rates. Other doctors
practiced euthanasia through various forms of lethal neglect."
"In the 1930s, there was a wave of portrayals of eugenic "mercy
killings" in American film, newspapers, and magazines. In 1931, the
Illinois Homeopathic Medicine Association began lobbying for the right
to euthanize "imbeciles" and other defectives. The Euthanasia Society
of America was founded in 1938."
IN THE 20TH CENTURY EUGENICISTS PROMOTED POPULATION CONTROL AND ABORTION
http://www.emmerich1.com/EUGENICS.htm
"From 1952 on, a major part of the eugenics movement was the
population control movement."
"One of the organizations that promoted eugenics under the new
population rubric was the Population Council. It was founded in 1952
by John D. Rockefeller 3rd, and spent $173,621,654 in its first 25
years. That is not a bad budget for one of the organizations in a dead
movement! Clearly, the people who think the eugenics movement died in
the rubble in Berlin do not understand crypto-eugenics, genetics or
population control."
"The coercive Chinese policy has a great deal of acceptance and
support in the United States, including from feminist leaders like
Eleanor Smeal and Molly Yard. When the Reagan administration cut off
funds for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) because of its
support for the Chinese population program, two American organizations
sued to restore funds: Rockefeller's Population Council and the
Population Institute in Washington. A 1978 survey of members of the
Population Association of America found that 34 percent of members
agreed that "coercive birth control programs should be initiated in at
least some countries immediately."
"In fact, the United States government is responsible for much of the
global population control. "
http://www.emmerich1.com/EUGENICS.htm
"The influence on the eugenicists on abortion in America is perhaps
best seen by comparing Roe v. Wade and a book by Professor Glanville
Williams, The Sanctity of Life and the Criminal Law. The book is cited
repeatedly in the 1973 abortion decision, but the numerous citations
do not reveal the full extent of the influence. Justice Blackmun
lifted his whole argument from Williams, including the history of
abortion, ancient attitudes, the influence of Christianity, common
law, Augustine's and Aquinas' teaching, canon law and English
statutory law. And Williams was a member of the Eugenics Society. Roe
v. Wade was based on eugenics."
EUGENICS IN EARLY AMERICAN PSYCHIATRY
Dowbiggin, a historian of psychiatry, focuses on the role that
psychiatry played in the eugenics movement. George Alder Blumer and
Charles Kirk Clarke were both psychiatrists who were under the
influence of the Eugenics Movement and both were superintendents of
influential mental asylums. Blumer headed the Utica State Hospital in
New York and the Butler Hospital for the Insane in Providence, Rhode
Island. Clarke ruled over the mental hospitals in Kingston and Toronto
before accepting a government mental-health post.
"Both Blumer and Clarke were early proponents of eugenics, emphasizing
the importance of restrictive laws that would limit the immigration
and marriage of the "mentally defective." To them, such laws seemed
necessary to stem the explosive growth of state and provincial mental
asylums where foreign-born patients made up more than 50 percent of
the hospital population. Further, the growth of hereditarian views in
science supported eugenic proposals; psychiatry's desire for greater
respectability in the medical profession made eugenic "science"
attractive."
On the 1897 Michigan Asexualization Bill, psychiatrist and Eugenicist
Blumer said the bill was a hopeful sign of the times. Blumer urged
surgeons to aid "the survival of the fit" by removing both ovaries
from women in whom on was affected, making them unable to have
children. The late 19th century Eugenicists wanted to make women who
they saw as inferior unable to have children.
Robert Battery, a surgeon at this time, advocated the removed the
ovaries of "inferior" women to cause premature menopause. Eugenicists
then claimed that removal of the ovaries cured insanity, reduced
sexual desire and prevented anti-social behavior. But their
motivation was to reduce the birth rate of people they considered
inferior.
CIRCUMCISION AND THE EUGENICS MOVEMENT
In the very late 19th century Doctor Peter Charles Remondino took up
the cause of routine infant circumcision. Remondino was influenced by
the theory of Charles Darwin and as a result believed that male
infants should be circumcised to perfect a fault in human evolution of
the male reproductice organ..
The circumcision argument showed a racist side. In the late forties,
for example, Newsweek magazine quoted Dr. Eugene Hand's address to the
AMA in which he observed that whereas the "promiscuous" and
uncircumcised Negro had an incidence of venereal infection of "almost
100%,... for the widely educated Jew, circumcised at birth, the
venereal disease rate has remained the same or decreased." Newsweek,
21 July 1947, 49; E. A. Hand, "Circumcision and Venereal Disease,"
Archives of Dermatology and Syphilis 60 (1949): 341-46.
See: http://www.nndb.com/people/018/000133616/
"Dr John Harvey Kellogg became chief physician at the Western Health
Reform Institute of Battle Creek, a home for healthy diet and
lifestyle that had been founded by Seventh Day Adventist leader Ellen
G. White in 1866."
Dr John Kellogg was an early American medical Eugenicist who was a
Seventh Day Adventist, and advocated eating his Kellogg's corn flakes
and circumcision of all male babies. According to
http://english.pravda.ru/health/27-03-2006/77873-circumcision-0/ Dr.
Kellogg said "It is important to perform surgery without using any
anesthetic so that pain during an operation may affect the mind. It
would be good if pain could be also associated with the idea of
punishment. "
"Surprisingly enough, U.S. doctors quickly embraced Kellogg’s
controversial concepts."
The Eugenicist doctors who promoted routing infant circumcision in the
late 19th and early 20th centuries may have thought that circumcision
would help reduce the birth rate, though they claimed the surgery had
health benefits for all kinds of ailments
