Professor: Charlene Galarneau

W - 6:00pm to 8:00pm

An exploration of the ethics of scientific and social eugenics in 20th/21st century U.S. through historical, bioethical, critical race, Indigenous, gender, and disability frameworks. Attention to roles of medicine, law, and government in relation to eugenic techniques: sterilization, segregation, and marriage restriction as well as genetic technologies, land conservation, and immigration policy. Consideration of resistance to eugenics (moral, scientific, religious, artistic, political) and recent strategies of redress (apologies, renamings, financial reparations).  Opportunity to study chosen context/community in a final project. 

Class Notes:

Spring 1, Wednesdays, 6 - 8 PM

Harvard Medical School