Was Nazi eugenics created in the US?

When Evil Met Science: Nazi Medicine and Eugenics

How the Voynich Manuscript was created

The Voynich manuscript is a medieval book written in an unknown script. This paper studies the relation between similarly spelled words in the Voynich manuscript. By means of a detailed analysis of similar spelled words it was possible to reveal the text generation method used for the Voynich manuscript.

Perfecting humankind: a comparison of progressive and Nazi views on eugenics, sterilization and abortion.

We are rapidly becoming a society that seeks to defend itself against the child. DURING 1996 AND 1997 the world was shocked when there were revelations that many western democracies had engaged in forced sterilization of people for eugenic reasons. The dictionary defines eugenics as " a science concerned with improving...the human species, by such means as influencing or encouraging reproductio...

The Nazi Cosmetic: Nazi Aesthetics in Action and the Practice of Medicine in Nazi Germany

This paper examines the conflation of vital and aesthetic norms in the practice of Nazi medicine, and eugenic practices. It argues that biological holism, though it served as the vehicle of Nazi ideology historically, did so contingently. The anti-totalitarian thinking of biological holist Kurt Goldstein speaks against the irrevocable use of biological holism to promote Nazi ideologies.

Psychiatry in the Nazi era.

OBJECTIVES To update Canadian psychiatrists on recent information from newly discovered Berlin archives about the actions of physicians, especially psychiatrists, during the era of National Socialism in Germany and to encourage introspection about the role of the medical profession, its relationship with government, and its vulnerability to manipulation by ideology and economic pressures. MET...