Anton, Mike,
Forced Sterilization Once Seen As Path to a Better World. Mike Anton. - Los Angeles Times, 2003. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Article 17, Human Relations, 1522-3248; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Originally Published: Forced Sterilization Once Seen As Path to a Better World, July 16, 2003; pp. A1+.
"Within the brittle files is the story of the state's long and largely forgotten effort to sterilize mental patients. Memos show how California civic leaders helped popularize eugenics around the world, including Nazi Germany. Case histories offer a glimpse of the more than 20,000 people who were, by law, sterilized in state hospitals from 1909 through the 1960s in anticipation of curing an array of social ills." (LOS ANGELES TIMES) This article probes into California's history of promoting the forced sterilization of mental patients in order to better society.
1522-3248;
Human Betterment Foundation
Ethics
Eugenics
Human reproduction
Mental health
Mental health laws
Mentally ill--Sexual Behavior
People with mental disabilities--Institutional care
Psychiatric hospital patients
Sex and law
Sterilization--Eugenic
California--History
Germany--History--1933-1945
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Forced Sterilization Once Seen As Path to a Better World. Mike Anton. - Los Angeles Times, 2003. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Article 17, Human Relations, 1522-3248; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Originally Published: Forced Sterilization Once Seen As Path to a Better World, July 16, 2003; pp. A1+.
"Within the brittle files is the story of the state's long and largely forgotten effort to sterilize mental patients. Memos show how California civic leaders helped popularize eugenics around the world, including Nazi Germany. Case histories offer a glimpse of the more than 20,000 people who were, by law, sterilized in state hospitals from 1909 through the 1960s in anticipation of curing an array of social ills." (LOS ANGELES TIMES) This article probes into California's history of promoting the forced sterilization of mental patients in order to better society.
1522-3248;
Human Betterment Foundation
Ethics
Eugenics
Human reproduction
Mental health
Mental health laws
Mentally ill--Sexual Behavior
People with mental disabilities--Institutional care
Psychiatric hospital patients
Sex and law
Sterilization--Eugenic
California--History
Germany--History--1933-1945
AC1.S5
050