ISBN:
0-8014-3356-8
,
0-8014-8398-0
Language:
English
Pages:
XVI, 245 S. :
,
Ill.
Edition:
1. publ.
Series Statement:
Cornell studies in the history of psychiatry
DDC:
616.89/00973
Keywords:
Geschichte 1880-1949
;
Eugenetica
;
Eugénisme - Canada - Histoire
;
Eugénisme - États-Unis - Histoire
;
Maladies mentales - Prévention - Politique gouvernementale - Canada
;
Maladies mentales - Prévention - Politique gouvernementale - États-Unis
;
Overheidsbeleid
;
Psychiatrie
;
Politik
;
Eugenics
;
Eugenics
;
Mental Disorders prevention & control
;
Mental Disorders prevention & control
;
Mental illness Prevention
;
Government policy
;
Mental illness Prevention
;
Government policy
;
Psychiatry history
;
Psychiatry history
;
Public Policy
;
Public Policy
;
Eugenik.
;
Psychiatrie.
;
Kanada
;
USA
;
USA.
;
Kanada.
;
Eugenik
;
Psychiatrie
;
Geschichte 1880-1949
;
Eugenik
;
Psychiatrie
;
Geschichte 1880-1949
Abstract:
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 U.S. and Canadian psychiatrists in the eugenics movement of the early twentieth century. He shows why professional men and women committed to helping those less fortunate than themselves arrived at such morally and intellectually dubious conclusions. Psychiatrists at the end of the nineteenth century felt professionally vulnerable, Dowbiggin explains, because they were under intense pressure from state and provincial governments and from other physicians to reform their specialty. Eugenics ideas, which dominated public health policy making, seemed the best vehicle for catching up with the progress of science. Among the prominent psychiatrist-eugenicists Dowbiggin considers are G. Alder Blumer, Charles Kirk Clarke, Thomas Salmon, Clare Hincks, and William Partlow
Abstract:
Tracing psychiatric support for eugenics throughout the interwar years, Dowbiggin pays special attention to the role of psychiatrists in the fierce debates about immigration policy. His examination of psychiatry's unfortunate flirtation with eugenics shows how professional groups come to think and act along common lines within specific historical contexts
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