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Eugenics, Genetics, Racism & Psychiatry - The Biological View of Human Ability and the "Mind" of Man

The following books examine the relationship between psychiatric theories and practices, and the subjects of eugenics and genetics. When the subject of genetics is wed with psychiatry the results are theories of fixed IQ, racial inferiority & superiority, sterilization, infanticide and genocide. These notions are not abstract ideas, but extensive research has shown that the primary force behind the Nazi ideas and practices of racial superiority, sterilization, and genocide had their direct roots in the theories and practices of modern psychiatric eugenic theories.

This is very timely in importance because modern psychiatry is once again traveling down a similar road promoting the validity of genetics, race, biochemistry, biopsychiatry and brain chemistry. The same ideas which directly led to and justified the Nazi atrocities never disappeared but were cloaked in different nomenclature and exist today.

Fundamentally it's a case of ignoring and denying the mind of Man while placing all importance on biology, chemistry, genetics and the environment (i.e. behaviorism).

To learn more about the theories and practices of eugenics and it's relationship to the psychiatric field online see the SNTP Genetics & Eugenics Main Page.

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Psychiatry & Eugenics (and Nazi associations)

The War Against Children of Color: Psychiatry Targets Inner-City Youth by Dr. Peter Breggin, Ginger Ross Breggin (Contributor)

Psychiatrists - the Men Behind Hitler: the Architects of Horror by Thomas Rèoder, Volker Kubillus, & Anthony Burwell

Psychiatry: The Ultimate Betrayal by Bruce Wiseman

The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide by Robert Jay Lifton

Cleansing the Fatherland: Nazi Medicine and Racial Hygiene by Gotz Aly, Peter Chroust, Christian Pross, Belinda Cooper (Translator), Foreword by Michael H. Kater

Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis by Robert N. Proctor

Death and Deliverance: 'Euthanasia' in Germany C. 1900-1945 by Michael Burleigh

Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code: Human Rights in Human Experimentation by George J. Annas (Editor),Michael A. Grodin (Editor)

Genetics, History of Eugenics, The Biological View of Man, Racism

Inheriting Shame: The Story of Eugenics and Racism in America (Advances in Contemporary Educational Thought Series) by Steven Selden

Controlling Human Heredity: 1865 to the Present by Diane B. Paul

Exploding the Gene Myth: How Genetic Information Is Produced and Manipulated by Scientists, Physicians, Employers, Insurance Companies, etc. by Ruth Hubbard, Elijah Wald

Keeping America Sane: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880-1940 (Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry) by Ian Robert Dowbiggin

In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity by Daniel J. Kevles

The Politics of Heredity: Essays on Eugenics, Biomedicine, and the Nature-Nurture Debate (Suny Series, Philosophy and Biology) by Diane B. Paul

Signs of Life: The Language and Meanings of DNA by Robert Pollack

Access to the Genome: The Challenge to Equality by Maxwell J. Mehlman, Jeffrey R. Botkin

Race Hygiene and National Efficiency: The Eugenics of Wilhelm Schallmayer by Sheila F. Weiss

The Science and Politics of Racial Research by William H. Tucker

Scientific Racism in Modern South Africa Saul Dubow

Genetic Secrets: Protecting Privacy and Confidentiality in the Genetic Era by Mark A. Rothstein (Editor)

Basic Genetics Texts

The Thread of Life: The Story of Genes and Genetic Engineering by Susan Aldridge

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Decoding Your Genes by Linda Tagliaferro, Mark Vincent Bloom

The Bell Curve - "Scientific" Racism, Inferiority, and Failure

The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life by Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles Murray (Contributor)

Intelligence, Genes, and Success: Scientists Respond to The Bell Curve by Bernie Devlin (Editor), Stephen E. Fienburg (Editor), Daniel Phillip Resnick (Editor)

Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth by Claude S. Fischer, Michael Hout, Martin Sanchez Jankowski

Measured Lies: The Bell Curve Examined by Joe L. Kincheloe (Editor), Shirley R. Steinberg (Editor)

Cloning, The Human Genome Project, Designer DNA, "You"=Your Body=Your DNA
Cloning is included here because the ideas of materialism, where everything Man is or can be are conceived to be inherent in his genes, is a constant factor. Biochemistry and molecular biology view you, not as a thinking being, but as a machine determined by your DNA. This is another aspect to the systematic destruction of any view of Man where human beings are conceived to be thinking, aware, self-determined and responsible entities.

Genetic Maps and Human Imaginations: The Limits of Science in Understanding Who We Are by Barbara Katz Rothman

Clone: The Road to Dolly, and the Path Ahead by Gina Bari Kolata

Human Cloning: Religious Responses by Ronald Cole-Turner (Editor)

Remaking Eden: Cloning and Beyond in a Brave New World by Lee M. Silver

Unnatural Selection: The Promise and the Power of Human Gene Research by Lois Wingerson

Remaking Eden II: How Genetic Engineering and Cloning Will Transform the American Family by Lee M. Silver

Who's Afraid of Human Cloning? by Gregory E. Pence

Cloning: Science & Society (Ideas in Conflict Series) by Gary E. McCuen

Clones and Clones: Facts and Fantasies About Human Cloning by Martha C. Nussbaum (Editor), Cass R. Sunstein (Editor)

Flesh of My Flesh: The Ethics of Cloning Humans: A Reader by Gregory E. Pence (Editor)

The Perfect Baby: A Pragmatic Approach to Genetics by Glenn McGee

The Human Cloning Debate by Glenn McGee (Editor)

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