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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 6 halftones
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