Disability Politics in a Time of Capitalist Crisis: Could History Repeat Itself?

Eugenics, a pseudo-science first developed by Francis Galton (a half-cousin of the evolutionist Charles Darwin) postulated that disabled people and others deemed to be unproductive such as those living with health conditions, alcoholism, and drug addiction, were not to be permitted to reproduce for...

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Published inNew politics Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 10 - 15
Main Author d, Chris J
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York New Politics 01.07.2012
Subjects
Birrell, Ian
Capitalism
Disability
Disabled persons
Ethics
Eugenics
Europe
European Union
Financial institutions
Handicapped
Hate Crime
IMF
Neoliberalism
Payments
People with disabilities
Physically Handicapped
Political activism
Politics
Right Wing Politics
Sovereign debt
United Kingdom
Workers with disabilities
United Kingdom > UK
Europe
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Summary:Eugenics, a pseudo-science first developed by Francis Galton (a half-cousin of the evolutionist Charles Darwin) postulated that disabled people and others deemed to be unproductive such as those living with health conditions, alcoholism, and drug addiction, were not to be permitted to reproduce for fear that their moral and/or physical failings would be transmitted to any offspring. [...]more disabled people were expelled from the mainstream of society to its margins throughout the industrialized world.
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ISSN:0028-6494