SJST 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Compulsory Sterilization, Law For The Prevention Of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring, Genetic Engineering

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The stuff we are going through is not in the article : it is a history of. History of sterilization in canada and the united states & Alberta sexual sterilization law starts in 1928: for those mentally ill, poor, and alcoholic, alberta feared the weakening of the gene pool, whiteness is about social privilege, almost 3000 people were sterilized, socially disadvantaged people. 1937 alberta has an amendment: to benefit mot individuals, but human race as such: no consent needed. 1942 amendment: widened the category of mental patients, despite knowledge of nazis. Genetic engineering & stem cell research: 2. Need to question and be critical: 3. Some are fearful of this advanced technology. We can use science to structure a human race (selecting males over females) We have to be critical in what we understand for human genetics. You get a liberal arts education in order to ask more questions. You are not specializing in one area.

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