Dyck, Erika (Author)
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Volume: 31, no. 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 7-16
Edition Details: First article in a special issue, “History of Eugenics Revisited”
Language: English
Eugenicists have often described their campaigns using garden metaphors; society is like a garden that requires weeding, or a tree that needs pruning. Eugenics and sterilization programs in various regions, however, differed in what they identified as weeds. British eugenics societies concentrated more on class conflicts and poverty as the main social pollutants and looked to urban slums, including those of East London, forsites of eugenic reform even when that meant deportation. European and American programs tended to characterize race as the offending toxin in need of cleansing. Race evolved as a rather amorphous term that embodied elements of nationalism, heritage, ethnicity, and ideology.
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Article Stahnisch, Frank (2014) The Early Eugenics Movement and Emerging Professional Psychiatry: Conceptual Transfers and Personal Relationships between Germany and North America, 1880s to 1930s. Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine (pp. 17-40).
Article Rudling, Per Anders (2014) Eugenics and Racial Biology in Sweden and the USSR: Contacts across the Baltic Sea. Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine (pp. 41-75).
Article Baker, Graham (2014) Eugenics and Migration: A Case Study of Salvation Army Literature about Canada and Britain, c.1890--1921. Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine (pp. 77-98).
Article Baker, Leslie (2014) “A Visitation of Providence” :Public Health and Eugenic Reform in the Wake of the Halifax Disaster. Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine (pp. 99-122).
Article Gibbons, Sheila (2014) “Our Power to Remodel Civilization”: The Development of Eugenic Feminism in Alberta, 1909--1921. Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine (pp. 123-142).
Article Samson, Amy (2014) Eugenics in the Community: Gendered Professions and Eugenic Sterilization in Alberta, 1928--1972. Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine (pp. 143-163).
Article Dyck, Erika (2014) Sterilization and Birth Control in the Shadow of Eugenics: Married, Middle-Class Women in Alberta, 1930--1960s. Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine (pp. 165-187).
Article Ladd-Taylor, Molly (2014) Contraception or Eugenics? Sterilization and “Mental Retardation” in the 1970s and 1980s. Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine (pp. 189-211).
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