雑誌『優生運動』にみる優生学と社会事業家 : 池田林儀の論文を中心に(浅野仁教授退職記念号)
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The ideology of social welfare, as well as the field of eugenics, considers with the question of man's value or the significance of existence. From the eugenic standpoint, social welfare provides relief and support for those people who may be considered "inferior". However, recent studies have pointed out that social workers in modern Japan who were the bearers of social welfare made immanent eugenics (Kato, 1996: Hirata, 2001: Sugiyama, 2003). Why is it that social workers in Japan, everywhere maintain an inconsistency in their continuing practice, in spite of the fact that they intentionally carry out a practical from of eugenics? In addition, why is it that social workers later became supporters of eugenic policy? In addition, why is it that social workers later became supporters of eugenic policy? This paper considers the relation between eugenics and social welfare historically, and pays particular attention to "Yusei-undou" from November of 1926 to January of 1930. "Yusei-undou" was developed by Ringi Ikeda (1892-1966) in 1926. During the first half of the twentieth-century eugenics became an approach to the solution of social problems in Japan. Ringi Ikeda had already positioned "Yusei-undou" as the practice of social improvement movement as a method for solving social problems. It is now understood that several social workers encouraged the incorporation of eugenic thought and Ikeda's practice into their own social work practice, based on a description of the magazine, "Yusei-undou"