Keeping America Sane: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880-1940 by Dowbiggin, Ian Robert - 1997

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Ithaca, NY, U.S.A.: Ithaca, NY, U.S.A.: Cornell University Press, 1997, 1997. Hb. Fine/Fine. 1st. 245pp. Index.. 1st. Hb. Fine/Fine.

Ithaca, NY, U.S.A.: Ithaca, NY, U.S.A.: Cornell University Press, 1997, 1997. Hb. Fine/Fine. 1st. 245pp. Index.. 1st. Hb. Fine/Fine.

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Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.: Cornell Univ Pr. New. 1997. Hardcover. 0801433568 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - 245 pages. -- -- DESCRIPTION: 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,… Read More