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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello Friends,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Below and attached are questions developed by Nancy and me regarding this book. We were unable to find any commercially available book club questions.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">John<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Questions for Eugenics book <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">1. Why did eugenics become a large issue in the early 20th century?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2. What was feeble minded and how was it assessed?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">3. How did the work of Gregor Mendel influence eugenics in the United States?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">4. Why was Carrie Buck's case considered excellent for judicial review?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">5. How did the great depression and the New Deal begin to reduce the interest in Eugenics?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">6. Did Carrie receive competent legal representation?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">7. What did you know about Oliver Wendell Holmes work on the Supreme Court?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">8. Why do you believe sterilization continued until the 1970s?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">9. over the twentieth century, how have the expression of personal traits changed from nature to nurture? Are notions of the causes of traits changing today?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10. Virginia was the last state to end sterilization. What if anything does that say about VA?
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<p class="MsoNormal">11. How are political conditions today similar to those in the 1920s? How are they different?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">12. NFBV member, Marion McDonald was sterilized in the late 50s or early 60s, not because she was epileptic, feeble-minded, or for any of the reasons that the proponents used in the past. VA did it for her husband, Mack, to work in the
Workshop. Thoughts?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">13. Could sterilization for eugenic reasons return?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">14. Do you recommend this book for others?<o:p></o:p></p>
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