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Liam DunawayWar on the Weak

Created for the 2007 NHD Competition. Following the theme "Triumph & Tragedy", this documentary depicts the U.S. Eugenic legislation throughout the early 20th Century and chronicles the compulsory sterilization faced by many Americans. "War on the Weak" continues to analyze negative eugenics by discussing the U.S. Supreme
Court case of Buck v. Bell. Furthermore, the parallels present among U.S. and Nazi ideologies on the nature of eugenics are presented, along with an exposition on the affinity Nazi scientists had for U.S. eugenics laws. The documentary concludes with a look at modern positive eugenics and leaves the viewer with the hopeful message of a society free of ailments but warns of the dangers on science that is not kept in check with the moral values of humanity.


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Producer: Liam Dunaway
Keywords: eugenics; nazi medicine; buck v. bell; genome; ero; laughlin; strode; virginia; hitler; cumpulsory sterilization; procreational autonomy; nhd; triumph and tragedy; war on the weak;

Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States

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