Word: feeblemindedness
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First stop in Investigator Ziemer's educational tour was a women's hospital in Berlin. There he saw six doctors hard at work in an operating room-sterilizing women. Swiftly and methodically hospital beds rolled in and out of the operating room. Their occupants were weak women, women...
> Said Dr. Samuel Warren Hamilton of the U.S. Public Health Service: "If it were not for the war, Hitler's experiment in population control [of the feebleminded] would have been of great value for psychiatry."
To the learned educators, industrialists and doctors who had gathered to ponder these problems, famed Psychologist Edward Lee Thorndike made a concrete proposal: let the U. S. establish State asylums for underprivileged geniuses to match its asylums for the feebleminded.
In the post-Insull afterglow of U. S. high-financeering, No. 1 utility scandal was tubby Howard C. Hopson's rancid Associated Gas & Electric. Today Hopson is self-allegedly feebleminded; his goons are dead, broke and scattered; his insolvent empire has become the largest reorganization in the history of...
Genetic Inheritance. In the U. S. an estimated three to five million people suffer from serious incapacities (feeblemindedness, mental disease, blindness, deafness, etc.) for which their heredity is in part responsible. Persons carrying these traits may come from the most privileged or most underprivileged groups in society. Mr. Osborn points out that, contrary to popular belief, the rate of reproduction among the mentally afflicted is quite low. However, he believes that doctors should sterilize the feebleminded. He claims that absolute prevention of births in this group would lead to a reduction of at least 10% in a generation. Twenty-nine...