On Thursday, September 25, at 6:00 pm in the Harkin Institute (2800 University Ave), Dr. Devin Stahl, Associate Professor of Bioethics and Religion at Baylor University, will lecture on “The Protestant Work Ethics, Eugenics, and Quality of Life Measures.”
For those wishing to attend the lecture virtually, please sign on here at least five minutes in advance: https://drake-edu.zoom.us/j/81656501933.
Dr. Stahl’s lecture will explore how Protestant values of productivity merged with medical science in the early twentieth century to produce the American eugenics movement. Today, quality of life measurements in medicine reproduce this logic to the detriment of people with disabilities.
