Psychiatry and the Legacies of Eugenics
Historical Studies of Alberta and Beyond
by Frank Stahnisch, Erna Kurbegović
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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. 
Book 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.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1
John M. MacEachran and Eugenics in Alberta: Victorian Sensibilities, Idealist Philosophy, and Detached Efficiency / Henderikus J. Stam and Ashley Barlow
Chapter 2
The Consequences of Eugenic Sterilization in Alberta / Douglas Wahlsten
Chapter 3
The Involvement of Nurses in the Eugenics Program in Alberta, 1920 - 1940 / Diana Mansell
Chapter 4
The Alberta Eugenics Movement and the 1937 Amendment to the Sexual Sterilization Act / Mikkel Dack
Chapter 5
Eugenics in Manitoba and the Sterilization Controversy of 1933 / Erna Kurbegović
Chapter 6
"New Fashioned with Respect to the Human Race": American Eugenics in the Media at the Turn of the Twentieth Century / Celeste Tường Vy Sharpe
Chapter 7
The "Eugenics Paradox": Core Beliefs of Progressivism versus Relics of Medical Traditionalism - The Example of Kurt Goldstein / Frank W. Stahnisch
Chapter 8
Too Little, Too Late: Compensation for Victims of Coerced Sterilization / Paul J. Weindling
Chapter 9
Commentary One / Marc Workman
Chapter 10
Commentary Two / Gregor Wolbring
Book Details
Title
Psychiatry and the Legacies of Eugenics
Publisher
AU Press
Published
2020
Pages
412
Edition
1
Language
English
ISBN13
9781771992657
ISBN10
1771992654
ISBN13 Digital
9781771992664
ISBN10 Digital
1771992662
PDF Size
27.7 MB
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