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Facing Eugenics is a social history of sexual sterilization operations in twentieth-century Canada.

Sterilization (Birth control) --- Reproductive rights --- Contraception --- Generative organs --- Infertility --- Sexual sterilization --- Sterilization, Sexual --- Voluntary sterilization --- Sexual rights --- Abortion --- Birth control --- Human reproduction --- Involuntary sterilization --- Reproductive freedom --- Social aspects --- History --- Surgery --- Canada. --- Alberta. --- Government of Alberta --- Canada (Province) --- Canadae --- Ceanada --- Chanada --- Chanadey --- Dominio del Canadá --- Dominion of Canada --- Jianada --- Kʻaenada --- Kaineḍā --- Kanada --- Ḳanadah --- Kanadaja --- Kanadas --- Ḳanade --- Kanado --- Kanakā --- Province of Canada --- Republica de Canadá --- Yn Chanadey

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"The Saskatchewan Mental Hospital at Weyburn has played a significant role in the history of psychiatric services, mental health research, and community care in Canada. Its history provides a window to the changing nature of mental health services over the twentieth century. Built in 1921, the Saskatchewan Mental Hospital was billed as the last asylum in North America and the largest facility of its kind in the British Commonwealth. A decade later, the Canadian Committee for Mental Hygiene cited it as one of the worst institutions in the country, largely due to extreme overcrowding. In the 1950s, the Saskatchewan Mental Hospital again attracted international attention for engaging in controversial therapeutic interventions, including treatments using LSD. In the 1960s, sweeping health care reforms took hold in the province and mental health institutions underwent dramatic changes as they began moving patients into communities. As the patient and staff population shrank, the once palatial building fell into disrepair, the asylum's expansive farmland fell out of cultivation, and mental health services folded into a complicated web of social and correctional services. Managing Madness examines the Weyburn Mental Hospital, the people it housed, struggled to understand, help, or even tried to change, and the ever-shifting understanding of mental health."--

Mental health services --- Mentally ill --- Psychiatric hospitals --- Hospitals --- Insane asylums --- Mental hospitals --- Mental illness --- Mental institutions --- Psychiatry in general hospitals --- Asylums --- Mental health facilities --- Specialty hospitals --- Insane --- Mental patients --- Mentally disordered --- Sick --- People with mental disabilities --- Behavioral health care --- Mental health care --- Psychiatric care --- Psychiatric services --- Medical care --- History. --- Institutional care --- Patients --- Saskatchewan Hospital (Weyburn, Sask.) --- Weyburn Mental Hospital (Weyburn, Sask.) --- Saskatchewan Mental Hospital (Weyburn, Sask.)

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The first collection of its kind to explore the diverse and global history of psychedelics as they appealed to several generations of researchers and thinkers. Expanding Mindscapes offers a fascinatingly fluid and diverse history of psychedelics that stretches around the globe. While much of the literature to date has focused on the history of these drugs in the United States and Canada, editors Erika Dyck and Chris Elcock deliberately move away from these places in this collection to reveal a longer and more global history of psychedelics, which chronicles their discovery, use, and cultural impact in the twentieth century. The authors in this collection explore everything from LSD psychotherapy in communist Czechoslovakia to the first applications of LSD-25 in South America to the intersection of modernism and ayahuasca in China. Along the way, they also consider how psychedelic experiments generated their own cultural expressions, where the specter of the United States may have loomed large and where colonial empires exerted influence on the local reception of psychedelics in botanical and pharmaceutical pursuits. Breaking new ground by adopting perspectives that are currently lacking in the historiography of psychedelics, this collection adds to the burgeoning field by offering important discussions on underexplored topics such as gender, agriculture, parapsychology, anarchism, and technological innovations.

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Between the decriminalization of contraception in 1969 and the introduction of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, a landmark decade in the struggle for women's rights, public discourse about birth control and family planning was transformed. At the same time, a transnational conversation about the "population bomb" that threatened global famine caused by overpopulation embraced birth control technologies for a different set of reasons, revisiting controversial ideas about eugenics, heredity, and degeneration. In Challenging Choices Erika Dyck and Maureen Lux argue that reproductive politics in 1970s Canada were shaped by competing ideologies on global population control, poverty, personal autonomy, race, and gender. For some Canadians the 1970s did not bring about an era of reproductive liberty but instead reinforced traditional power dynamics and paternalistic structures of authority. Dyck and Lux present case studies of four groups of Canadians who were routinely excluded from progressive, reformist discourse: Indigenous women and their communities, those with intellectual and physical disabilities, teenage girls, and men. In different ways, each faced new levels of government regulation, scrutiny, or state intervention as they negotiated their reproductive health, rights, and responsibilities in the so-called era of sexual liberation. While acknowledging the reproductive rights gains that were made in the 1970s, the authors argue that the legal changes affected Canadians differently depending on age, social position, gender, health status, and cultural background. Illustrating the many ways to plan a modern family, these case studies reveal how the relative merits of life and choice were pitted against each other to create a new moral landscape for evaluating classic questions about population control.

Birth control --- Population control --- Pregnancy --- Family planning --- Contraception --- Reproductive rights --- Social aspects. --- Prevention --- 1900-1999 --- Canada. --- Canada (Province) --- Canadae --- Ceanada --- Chanada --- Chanadey --- Dominio del Canadá --- Dominion of Canada --- Jianada --- Kʻaenada --- Kaineḍā --- Kanada --- Ḳanadah --- Kanadaja --- Kanadas --- Ḳanade --- Kanado --- Kanakā --- Province of Canada --- Republica de Canadá --- Yn Chanadey

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Parce qu’elle touche à l’origine de la vie, à l’organisation sociale et au devenir des populations, la reproduction a, depuis l’aube de l’histoire, nourri des mythes et alimenté les imaginaires collectifs. En va-t-il différemment dans les sociétés contemporaines assistant au développement des technologies reproductives ? C’est la question à laquelle tente de répondre cet ouvrage qui explore des représentations littéraires, artistiques et sociales, laissant entrevoir la persistance d’un lien fort entre de nouvelles possibilités reproductives et le sentiment d’un basculement « civilisationnel ». De quelle manière la recherche scientifique et les innovations biomédicales alimentent-elles l’imaginaire public et quelle place ont, notamment, les fictions décrivant un monde où la maîtrise de la reproduction façonne un nouvel ordre social ? Comme en témoigne le succès intemporel du Meilleur des mondes d’ Aldous Huxley ou l’engouement pour d’autres fictions dystopiques comme La servante écarlate, cette technicisation est un thème d’inspiration inépuisable. La fabrique de l’imaginaire reproductif offre des projections prophétiques et se fait l’écho de craintes séculaires, tout en perpétuant des modèles reproductifs, sexuels ou de genre. L’étude de ces représentations et de ces mythes confirme leur place, consciente ou inconsciente, dans notre rapport à la reproduction médicalisée.

Human reproductive technology - Social aspects - Congresses. --- Human reproduction - Social aspects - Congresses. --- Human reproductive technology in literature - Congresses. --- Procréation médicalement assistée. --- Fécondation in vitro. --- Techniques de reproduction --- Méthodes --- Anthropology --- procréation médicale assistée --- reproduction médicalisée --- récit d'anticipation --- imaginaire --- mythe --- représentation sociale --- Human reproductive technology --- Human reproduction --- Human reproductive technology in literature