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Barbara Bates Center Seminar Series - “Eugenic Discourses in U. S. Nursing Texts of the Twentieth Century” (Speaker: Mary Lagerway: Western Michigan School of Nursing)
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March 30, 2011 - 12:15-1:30 PM (Rm 2019, Floor 2U),
Speaker: Mary Lagerway PhD, RN
Professor, Western Michigan University
Bronson School of Nursing
Title: “Eugenic Discourses in U. S. Nursing Texts of the Twentieth Century”
Abstract: Prior to WWII, professional nursing discourse reflected popular views of eugenics in terms of positive eugenics of promoting reproduction among the healthy, attractive (often of Northern European descent) middle to upper classes to negative eugenics which forced sterilization of the “unfit” (who were often poor and uneducated and more recent immigrants). Eugenic themes appear most prevalent in Public Health, psychiatric nursing, and maternal-child health nursing texts. Margaret Sanger’s complex support of some of the tenants of eugenics is well known, but the support of other nursing leaders such as Lillian Wald, Mary Breckenridge, and Lavinia Dock is less well understood. This presentation will trace and analyze some of the ways in which U.S. nursing played a seldom-recognized role in the eugenics movement.
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