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Psychiatry and the legacies of eugenics : historical studies of Alberta and beyond /
"From 1928 to 1972, the Alberta Sexual Sterilization Act, Canada's lengthiest eugenic policy, shaped social discourses and medical practice in the province. Sterilization programs--particularly involuntary sterilization programs--were responding both nationally and internationally to socia...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edmonton, AB :
AU Press,
[2020]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. John M. MacEachran and eugenics in Alberta: Victorian sensibilities, idealist philosophy, and detached efficiency
- 2. The consequences of eugenic sterilization in Alberta
- 3. The involvement of nurses in the eugenics program in Alberta, 1920-1940
- 4. The Alberta eugenics movement and the 1937 amendment to the sexual sterilization act
- 5. Eugenics in Manitoba and the sterilization controversy of 1933
- 6. "New fashioned with respect to the human race": American eugenics in the media at the turn of the twentieth century
- 7. The "eugenics paradox" : core beliefs of progressivism versus relics of medical traditionalism-the example of Kurt Goldstein
- 8. Too little, too late: compensation for victims of coerced sterilization
- 9. Commentary one
- 10. Commentary two
- Conclusion : lessons from the history of eugenics
- Appendix : sexual sterilization, four years experience in Alberta
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index.