Keeping America Sane : Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880-1940 /

What would bring a physician to conclude that sterilization is appropriate treatment for the mentally ill and mentally handicapped? Using archival sources, Ian Robert Dowbiggin documents the involvement of both American and Canadian psychiatrists in the eugenics movement of the early twentieth centu...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Dowbiggin, Ian Robert (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Overheidsbeleid.
Eugenetica.
Psychiatrie.
Psychiatrie
Eugenik
Mental illness > Prevention > Government policy.
Eugenics.
PSYCHOLOGY / History.
Eugenisme > Canada > Histoire
Maladies mentales > Prevention > Politique gouvernementale > Canada
Eugenisme > États-Unis > Histoire
Maladies mentales > Prevention > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis
Public Policy.
Psychiatry > history.
Mental Disorders > prevention & control.
Mental illness > Prevention > Government policy > United States.
Mental illness > Prevention > Government policy > Canada.
Eugenics > United States.
Eugenics > Canada.
USA.
Kanada
United States.
Canada.
Student Collection
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE TO THE CORNELL PAPERBACKS EDITION
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. An Exodus of Enthusiasm: Psychiatry in Canada and the United States, I88o-I92o
  • 2. A Confusing Wildness of Recommendations: G. Alder Blumer, Eugenics, and U.S. Psychiatry, I88o-I940
  • 3. Keeping This Young Country Sane: C. K. Clarke, Eugenics, and Canadian Psychiatry, I89o-I940
  • 4. A Question of Public Health: Psychiatry, Eugenics, and Immigration in the United States, I88o-I925
  • Conclusion: Reflections on the History of Eugenics
  • INDEX

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