Psychiatry and the Legacies of Eugenics
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 social anxieties p...
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2021
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| description | 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 social anxieties produced by the perceived connection between mental degeneration and heredity. Psychiatry and the Legacies of Eugenics illustrates how the emerging field of psychiatry and its concerns about inheritable conditions was heavily influenced by eugenic thought and contributed to the longevity of sterilization practices in Western Canada.
Using institutional case studies, biographical accounts, and media developments from Western Canada and Europe, contributors trace the impact of eugenics on nursing practices, politics, and social attitudes, while investigating the ways in which eugenics discourses persisted unexpectedly and remained mostly unexamined in psychiatric practice. This volume further extends historical analysis into considerations of contemporary policy and human rights issues through a discussion of disability studies as well as compensation claims for victims of sterilization. In impressive detail, contributors shed new light on the medical and political influences of eugenics on psychiatry at a key moment in the field’s development.
With contributions by Ashley Barlow, W. Mikkel Dack, Diana Mansell, Guel A. Russell, Celeste Tuong Vy Sharpe, Henderikus J. Stam, Douglas Wahlsten, Paul J. Weindling, Robert A. Wilson, Gregor Wolbring, and Marc Workman. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-724292024-03-31T22:44:27Z Psychiatry and the Legacies of Eugenics Stahnisch, Frank W. Kurbegović, Erna sterilization Psychology History mental health medical experimentation reproductive rights institutionalization health care newgenics policy thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine 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 social anxieties produced by the perceived connection between mental degeneration and heredity. Psychiatry and the Legacies of Eugenics illustrates how the emerging field of psychiatry and its concerns about inheritable conditions was heavily influenced by eugenic thought and contributed to the longevity of sterilization practices in Western Canada. Using institutional case studies, biographical accounts, and media developments from Western Canada and Europe, contributors trace the impact of eugenics on nursing practices, politics, and social attitudes, while investigating the ways in which eugenics discourses persisted unexpectedly and remained mostly unexamined in psychiatric practice. This volume further extends historical analysis into considerations of contemporary policy and human rights issues through a discussion of disability studies as well as compensation claims for victims of sterilization. In impressive detail, contributors shed new light on the medical and political influences of eugenics on psychiatry at a key moment in the field’s development. With contributions by Ashley Barlow, W. Mikkel Dack, Diana Mansell, Guel A. Russell, Celeste Tuong Vy Sharpe, Henderikus J. Stam, Douglas Wahlsten, Paul J. Weindling, Robert A. Wilson, Gregor Wolbring, and Marc Workman. Published 2021-10-20T22:08:16Z 2021-10-20T22:08:16Z 2020-07-28 book 9781771992657 9781771992664 9781771992671 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/72429 eng image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B08DSZ11W6/keywords=Psychiatry+and+the+Legacies+of+Eugenics https://www.aupress.ca/books/120292-psychiatry-and-the-legacies-of-eugenics/ Athabasca University Press 10.15215/aupress/9781771992657.01 10.15215/aupress/9781771992657.01 6b1b8af7-79e4-4b18-b297-b983df0f073f 9781771992657 9781771992664 9781771992671 412 Canada open access |
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| topic | sterilization Psychology History mental health medical experimentation reproductive rights institutionalization health care newgenics policy thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine |
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