Final Study Guide
17 Cards in this Set
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Buck v Bell
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Deals with a court ordered sterilization without informed consent. It upheld the states right to sterilize people without their consent. These people were feeble minded. "three generations of imbeciles are enough". Virginia law stated compulsory sterilization of those diagnosed with a men…
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Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Co (2005)
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Sheila White was the only woman working in the Maintenance of Way Department of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad's Tennessee Yard. After she complained of harassment by her supervisor, she was placed in a less desirable job (but kept the same rank), and suspended for 37 days with…
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Charles Davenport
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American movement on the campaign for eugenics. This movement was that certain traits liek intelligence, morality, viture, etc were based on someone's genetic orientation. People who were feeble minded were inadequate and couldn't support themselves. Professor of Zoology and leader of Ame…
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Eugenics
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Refers to approach that there should be only the best parents, and we should eliminate those that aren't adequate. Definition: the science of improving hte qualities of a breed or species, especially of the human race by careful selection of parents
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Francis Dalton
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Coined the term eugenics. Began to use rudimentary statistics to study family trees of famous individuals, 80 pairs of twins, data he gathered convinced him many physical and mental traits were hereditary. The science that deals with all the influences that the improved qualities of the r…
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Genetic information nondiscirmination act (2008)
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the president george bush has assigned into law the (GINA) that will protect americans against discrimination based on their genetic information when it comes to health insurance and employment.
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M'Naghten rule
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A rule for determining insanity, which asks whether the defendant knew what he or she was doing or whether the defendant knew that what he or she was doing was wrong.
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Madrigal v. Quilligan (1975)
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law suit against USC hospitals when residents decided that some Latinas had several children "too many", and when they were in labor, were given consent forms to sign in English even if they couldn't speak english. There was an action saying they had been sterilized without giving consent.
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Negative Eugenics
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Negative eugenics is aimed at lowering fertility among the genetically disadvantaged. Negative eugenics aimed to eliminate, through sterilisation or segregation, those deemed physically, mentally, or morally "undesirable". This includes abortions, sterilization, and other methods of famil…
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Positive Eugenics
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Positive eugenics is aimed at encouraging reproduction among the genetically advantaged,for example the reproduction of the intelligent, the healthy, and the successful. What would constitute desirable traits? Possible approaches include financial and political stimuli, targeted demograph…
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Provocation
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defense; usually used by jealous husbands to kill their wives, only people by the dominance culture can use a defense that's theoretically available to everyone; forced to react in a certain manner because of circumstances. The provocation defense can be a relevant factor in a court''s as…
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Relf Sisters (1973)
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two girls on Welfare were sterilized at a federally funded clinic in Alabama (without the parents knowledge) under the threat that their benefits would be withdrawn if they weren't sterilized.
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Simon-Binet tests
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Simon-Binet IQ tests provided a way to measure people's intelligence, no one resisted this idea. Mismeasures of a man and family to show that some people were inferior and evil. These ideas took root and American social thinking subscribed to this and social reformers combined hereditary …
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Social Dawinism
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"survival of the fittest" - framework based off of Darwin's work. Social Darwinism is an ideology of society that seeks to apply biological concepts of Darwinism or of evolutionary theory to sociology and politics, often with the assumption that conflict between groups in society leads to…
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stump v sparkman
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Judge harold d stump granted a mother's petition to have a tubal ligation performed on her 15-year-old daughter, whom the mother alleged was "somewhat retarded". The petition was granted the same day it was filed. The judge did not hold a hearing to receive evidence or appoint a lawyer to…
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Thomas Kuhn
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American physicist, historian, and philosopher of science. His book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, significantly influenced both the academic and popular circles, introducing the term "paradigm shift". Kuhn made several notable claims concerning the progress of scientific knowl…
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Valerie Nieto
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Cal Supreme Court approved of sterilization of incompetent development disabled person, had downsyndrome and her mother said she couldnt take care of her and was worried she would become pregnant. Mother asked for sterilization and the court allowed this be made by a guardian. It raises d…
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