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In the Public Good examines the trajectory of eugenic ideas in Ontario in the early twentieth century, when the eugenics movement gained support for the solutions it offered to social ills of the day. Koester focuses on key legal events that influenced eugenic ideas, showing how the law was used both to promote and deflect eugenic thinking.

Eugenics --- Law and legislation --- History. --- 1900s. --- 1910s. --- 1920s. --- 1930s. --- Clifford Magone. --- Criminal Code. --- Dorothea Palmer. --- ESC. --- Eastview Trial. --- Eugenics Society Canada. --- F E Hodgins. --- Forbes Godfrey. --- Francis Galton. --- Frank Hodgins. --- Helen MacMurchy. --- Herbert Bruce. --- Kaufman. --- Ontario. --- P D Ross. --- Parents Information Bureau. --- Roman Catholic church. --- Toronto. --- W L Hutton. --- birth control. --- feeble minded. --- fit. --- fitness. --- great depression. --- immigration. --- individual liberty. --- marriage laws. --- negative. --- obscenity provisions. --- positive. --- private members bills. --- radio broadcasts. --- restrictions. --- royal commission. --- sterilization laws. --- sterilization. --- trial. --- venereal disease.