ANSC 2060 Chapter : Ch 15 Companion Animal Health
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Inheritance of acquired characteristics: morel proposed a degenerative sequence, 1. Mental illness: degeneration stigmatized the mentally ill and created fear & loathing of psychiatrists. Ideas of degeneration began to bolster policies such as sterilization, euthanasia, and persecution of the jews on the grounds that they were degenerate" people. Evolution: genetic variation in physical and physiological traits (phenotypes, natural selection, herbert spencer: coined the term survival of the fittest , concept was used to justify unrestrained economic competition (wealth+power=fitness) Limited the social support for the needy and infirm: 1. Segregation of the mentally ill by confinement: 2. Forcable sterilization (buck vs. bell: by 1945 over 45,000 americans had been sterilized. In 1937 66% of americans favored sterilization: 3. University psychiatry (first biological psychiatry: teaching educating medical students about mental illness, research systematic, experimental medicine. Germans the leaders in this movement: had a formal link between research and teaching, md dissertation, habilitaion.
