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NIH Sep 21, 2018 | R01
Demographic Patterns of Eugenic Sterilization in Five U.S. States: Mixed Methods Investigation of Reproductive Control of the 'Unfit'
Institution: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
FOA Number: PAR-20-254
Abstract
PROJECT NARRATIVE Between 1907 and the mid-1970s, 32 US states passed and implemented eugenic sterilization laws that authorized the sterilization of people considered unfit. Our epidemiological, historical and mixed-methods analysis of over 32,000 eugenic sterilization requests in five US states (California, North Carolina, Iowa, Michigan and Utah) identifies varying demographic patterns and documents changes in how eugenics laws were applied over time. The proposed project intersects with numerous ethical, legal, and social issues in human genomics, providing new scholarly knowledge about the ways in which a particular variant of genetic determinism resulted in the widespread state-mandated deprivation of reproductive capacity and contributed to health inequities.
FUNDING AGENCY:
Funder:
NIHInstitute:
NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTEFunding Type:
R01Project Number:
R01HG010567Start Date:
Sep 21, 2018End Date:
May 31, 2024PROJECT TERMS:
Affect, Age, analytical method, Asians, Atrocities, Awareness, base, Big Data, biobehavior, black women, California, Categories, Censuses, Chronology, Coercion, Color, Complement, Complex, Computer software, Consent, Consent Forms, Data, Data Set, Data Sources, Dependence, deprivation, design, Diagnosis, disability, Disabled Persons, Epidemiology, ethical legal social implication, Ethics, Ethnic Origin, Eugenics, experience, Family, fitness, Gender, General Practitioners, Genetic, genetic association, Genetic Determinism, genetic discrimination, Genetic study, genetic variant, Genomics, Geographic state, Geography, Grant, health inequalities, Heredity, Human, human genomics, Immigrant, Indiana, Individual, innovation, Intelligence, interest, Investigation, Iowa, Knowledge, Latina, Law Enforcement, Laws, Legal, Light, men, Methodology, Methods, Michigan, Modeling, National Human Genome Research Institute, Nationalities, Native Americans, Newspapers, North Carolina, optical character recognition, Patients, Pattern, Policies, Population, population based, Population Group, Process, programs, Recording of previous events, Records, Religion and Spirituality, Reproduction, reproductive, Reproductive Health, Research, Research Personnel, residence, social, social status, Sorting - Cell Movement, Specialist, Sterilization, Subgroup, Text, Time, trait, United States, Utah, Vision, welfare, Woman, Work