Catholic Bioethics
T
HE CATHOLIC CHURCH and 
THE EUGENICS MOVEMENT
 

 Pope Pius XI


4. EUGENICS

4.1 Mendel, Darwin, Galton, Nietzsche, and the Rise of Eugenics. 1.1. Mendel; 1.2. Darwin; 1.3. Galton; 1.5. Nietzsche; 1.5. US Sterilization

4.2 Pope Pius XI and the Catholic Response: Casti Conubii.

4.3 Eugenic Sterilization in the United States and Germany: 1930-1945 (Sofair, Annals of Internal Medicine)

4.4. An American Admirer of the German Eugenics Program: Paul Popenoe.

4.5. Eugenics as Bad Science: Genetic Diversity

4.6. The Fallacy that Will Not Die: Modern Revivals of Eugenics.


READING:

1. Pope Pius XI, Casti Conubii,. esp. § 63-78.

2. Sofair, André N., et.al. “Eugenic Sterilization and a Qualified Nazi Analogy: The United States and Germany, 1930-1945,” Annals of Internal Medicine, Feb. 15, 2000. v. 132 no. 4, pp. 312-319.

3. Kevles, Daniel, In the Name of Eugenics, Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity, (Knopf, New York, 1985), ch.s 5-7, pp. 85-128.

4. Christine Rosen, Preaching Eugenics, Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement, (Oxford University Press, 2004).


Note from Jones on Cast. Con. that liberalized abortion laws were also facilitated by a eugenic mentality


 

 

 

 

 


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