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100			_aAnton, Mike,
245		0	_aForced Sterilization Once Seen As Path to a Better World. _cMike Anton.
260			_bLos Angeles Times, _c2003.
440			_aSIRS Enduring Issues 2004. _nArticle 17, _pHuman Relations, _x1522-3248;
500			_aArticles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2004.
500			_aOriginally Published: Forced Sterilization Once Seen As Path to a Better World, July 16, 2003; pp. A1+.
520			_a"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.
599			_aRecords created from non-MARC resource.
651			_aCalifornia _xHistory
650			_aEthics
650			_aEugenics
651			_aGermany _xHistory _y1933-1945
610			_aHuman Betterment Foundation
650			_aHuman reproduction
650			_aMental health
650			_aMental health laws
650			_aMentally ill _xSexual Behavior
650			_aPeople with mental disabilities _xInstitutional care
650			_aPsychiatric hospital patients
650			_aSex and law
650			_aSterilization _xEugenic
710			_aProQuest Information and Learning Company _tSIRS Enduring Issues 2004, _pHuman Relations. _x1522-3248;
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