Keeping America Sane : : Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880-1940 / / Ian Robert Dowbiggin.
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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Dowbiggin, Ian Robert, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Keeping America Sane : Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880-1940 / Ian Robert Dowbiggin. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©2003 1 online resource (272 p.) : 6 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 century. He explains why professional men and women committed to helping those less fortunate than themselves arrived at such morally and intellectually dubious conclusions. Psychiatrists at the end of the nineteenth century felt professionally vulnerable, Dowbiggin explains, because they were under intense pressure from state and provincial governments and from other physicians to reform their specialty. Eugenic ideas, which dominated public health policy making, seemed the best vehicle for catching up with the progress of science. Among the prominent psychiatrist-eugenicists Dowbiggin considers are G. Alder Blumer, Charles Kirk Clarke, Thomas Salmon, Clare Hincks, and William Partlow. Tracing psychiatric support for eugenics throughout the interwar years, Dowbiggin pays special attention to the role of psychiatrists in the fierce debates about immigration policy. His examination of psychiatry's unfortunate flirtation with eugenics elucidates how professional groups come to think and act along common lines within specific historical contexts. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Eugenics Canada History. Eugenics Canada. Eugenics United States History. Eugenics United States. Eugenics. Mental illness Prevention Government policy Canada. Mental illness Prevention Government policy United States. Discrimination & Race Relations. Psychology & Psychiatry. U.S. History. PSYCHOLOGY / History. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 print 9780801483981 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501723803 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501723803 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501723803/original |
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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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