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• Title: Eugenic Image and Ideology: The Past Rewritten--a Future Imagined (Report)
• Author : Traffic (Parkville)
• Release Date : January 01, 2008
• Genre: Reference,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 364 KB

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What became of the eugenics movement? For the great majority of us, the comfortable answer is that the ideology died a death some time during the mid-20th century. Supporting evidence for this theory is not difficult to come by: during the middle decades of the century there certainly was a public backlash in Western societies against eugenics in response to its association with Nazism and paternalistic state control, as well as an ideological shift in society away from the movement's hereditarian basis in the face of the rising popularity of environmentalist theories (as in 'nurture over nature') to explain human characteristics. (1) This came in addition to the recognition from within the eugenics movement that the early 20th-century eugenists' 'one gene, one trait' understanding of human genetics was over-simplistic and that most human traits were a result of the interaction of multiple genes and could indeed be altered by environmental factors. (2) All of these issues culminated in a serious threat to the credibility of the image and ideology of the movement. As a result of this, a number of tangible traces of eugenic influence began to be dropped, ignored by, or purposely erased from the public consciousness during the late middle decades of the 20th century. (3) And despite a belated effort, beginning in Australia during the early 1980s and continuing throughout the 1990s, to publicly recognise omissions or rectify distortions of eugenics' history in Australia, (4) the popular historical narrative has done little to dispel the soothing myth forged during the immediate post-war period that whatever Australia's eugenic past may have been, it all neatly came to an end sometime during the middle of the 20th century.

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