Forced Sterilization Once Seen As Path to a Better World. Mike Anton.
by Anton, Mike; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 17Human Relations. Publisher: Los Angeles Times, 2003ISSN: 1522-3248;.Subject(s): California -- History | Ethics | Eugenics | Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 | Human Betterment Foundation | Human reproduction | Mental health | Mental health laws | Mentally ill -- Sexual Behavior | People with mental disabilities -- Institutional care | Psychiatric hospital patients | Sex and law | Sterilization -- EugenicDDC classification: 050 Summary: "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.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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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.
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