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Eugenics --- Mental illness --- Prevention --- Government policy --- Eugénisme --- 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. --- eugenetica (eugenese, eugenetiek) --- eugénisme (eugénique) --- sterilisation --- Eugénisme --- Maladies mentales --- Prévention --- Politique gouvernementale --- United States --- Canada --- Mental illness - Prevention - Government policy - United States. --- Mental illness - Prevention - Government policy - Canada. --- Eugenics - Canada. --- psychiatrie --- sterilisatie --- gedwongen behandeling (dwangbehandeling) --- traitement forcé --- 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
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