Also, improvements in public sanitation ( for example, the wider availability of sewage systems and of food inspection ) led to a decline in infectious diseases and thus a decreasing need for the largely household-based measures taught by home economists . " Thus, the end of euthenics as originally defined by Ellen Swallow Richards ensued.
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For example, a typical major in child study in euthenics includes introductory psychology, laboratory psychology, applied psychology, child study and social psychology in the Department of Psychology; the three courses offered in the Department of Child Study; beginning economics, programs of social reorganization and the family in Economics; and in the Department of Physiology, human physiology, child hygiene, principles of public health.
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This fact affords the basis for the hope that, when the method of securing strong offspring, even from partially defective stock and where is the strain without any defect ? is widely known, the teachings of science in respect even to marriage matings will be widely regarded and that in the generations to come the teachings and practice of euthenics will yield grater result because of the previous practice of the principles of eugenics . }}
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In the summer of 1926, Margaret Sanger created a stir when she gave a radio address, called " Racial Betterment ", in the first Euthenics Institute, where she praised attempts to " close our gates to the so-called'undesirables'" and proposed efforts to " discourage or cut down on the rapid multiplication of the unfit and undesirable at home ", by government-subsidized voluntary sterilization . ( from " The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger ", vol . 1 ( 2003 ), Esther Katz, ed .)
