Gender, Race, Woman and Health

Eugenics is essentially a social philosophy movement aimed at improving the genetic composition of the human race. Eugenics seeks to choose only the desired genes or characteristics of individuals in order to produce superior offspring. Various stories and ideas have been developed to justify the potential of human racial development in terms of race, gender, nation, and individual health. In her book Eugenic Nation, Alexandra Stern outlines several theories and data on how eugenic speech is related to some of these elements. A parent's health is likely to have an immediate impact on the child's well-being.It is mainly because some of the traits of diseases are contained in the genetic makeup of the parent. To illustrate this, Stern gives a case of a mentally ill parent, where most of the mental disorders are hereditary citing some of the states sterilizing the patients with psychological illnesses that are innate (Stern). Similarly, it applies to the nation where some countries believe in improving the human race among their citizens. In the United States, some states such as Virginia, North and south Carolina practice sterilization of Individuals with mental illnesses (Stern). This is mainly to promote proper psychological health in the future. Gender is another major factor where both males and females aim at the perfect partner when choosing a life partner, not only in the United States but it is the human nature. Though there has been an increase of cases of interracial marriages in the recent past, some races still feel superior and better than the others thus promoting only marriages among themselves. For instance, most of the Chinese and Turkish do not embrace marriages with the people of color.

Population control

Population control is the policy put in place with the aim of limiting the growth of a given population concerning numbers and in particular among the densely populated nations. The population control debate, for many years now, has been one of the most contested debates especially among the scholars and population activists receiving critics from both sides. For instance, in 2008, the Illinois senator then, Barrack Obama refused to sign ‘Born Alive Infants Protection Act' (Luna, Zakiya). Screens filled with babies from different races with the critics claiming that any child deserves protection regardless of the means used to bring them to the world.

Intersectionality

Intersectionality can be described as a belief or a theory that certain social identities related with the minority are directly related to the systems of discrimination, oppression or other forms of multiple threats. It argues that when the identification of an individual overlay to a number among the minority classes, they stand a higher ground of discrimination and health disparities. Gender, age, race, ethnicity among others are some of the factors explaining intersectionality (Hankivsky, Olena). However, health disparities are the most common forms of intersectionality. These are mostly the avoidable variances in the weight of an ailment, violence, among other opportunities experienced by the socially poor inhabitants hindering optimal health.

Research studies from health researchers and practitioners indicate that most of the injuries occur among the socially disadvantaged individuals. In the United States, African American women scholars have tried over a long time to bridge the gap in terms health among their populations. They argue that children growing in areas with the majority black people are likely to face more dangers such as rape, and other injuries due to high rates of crime, illiteracy, and drug abuse among other (Laura E, Gómez,). In these areas, most people have a low income and at the same time densely populated thus being more susceptible to health hazards. Besides, people associate the disadvantaged groups with health disparities. Most of the cases concerning health in most of these areas are injuries due to violence, disease outbreak due to poor hygiene among others.























Works cited

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Implications Of Intersectionality." Social Science & Medicine, vol 74, no. 11, 2012, pp. 1712-1720. Elsevier BV, doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.11.029.

Laura E, Gómez,. "Mapping Race : Critical Approaches To Health Disparities

Research,." Rutgers University Press, edited by Nancy López, 2013, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/berkeley-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1562495. Created from berkeley-ebooks on 2017-09-04 16:42:12.

Luna, Zakiya. "From Rights To Justice: Women Of Color Changing The Face Of US

Reproductive Rights Organizing." Societies Without Borders, vol 4, no. 3, 2009, pp. 343-365. Brill Academic Publishers, doi:10.1163/187188609x12492771031618.

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