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The abuses of this movement have been extensively documented in many excellent books covering such subjects as the hereditarian theory of mental testing and the passage of legislation for involuntary sterilization and restriction of immigration from nations deemed inferior in hereditary stock. By the end of the century the medical model of mental disability began to fall under the emerging Social Darwinist belief in the hereditarian nature of idiocy, which in turn created a receptivity for eugenic measures to deal with the alleged danger of the feebleminded. Yet while Speaker Gingrich exhorts the "welfare queen" to espouse republican ideals, his "welfare reform" package is in part informed by Charles Murray and Richard Hernnstein's book The Bell Curve, which resurrects the late-nineteenth-century reactionary modernist hereditarian arguments about behavior. |
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