Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Herbert S. Jennings

  • Promoting early 20th century American eugenics under the guise of science

    Joseph LockhartSaty Satya-MurtiCalifornia, United States Few adherents of pseudoscientific beliefs have wreaked as much societal and human damage as did the eugenicists during the first half of the 20th century. In America, these beliefs led to large-scale sterilization, immigration controls with flimsy rationales,1 and support of racist education and funding.2 Worldwide, they set the stage…