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Eugenics in the Community: Gendered Professions and Eugenic Sterilization in Alberta, 1928--1972 (2014)

Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Volume: 31, no. 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 143-163

Publication Date: 2014
Edition Details: Article in a special issue, “History of Eugenics Revisited”
Language: English

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Eugenics Law and legislation Public health Birth control; contraception; sterilization Mental disorders and diseases Nurses and nursing Science and gender 20th century Alberta, Canada

Scholarship on Alberta's Sexual Sterilization Act (1928-1972) has focused on the high-level politics behind the legislation, its main administrative body, the Eugenics Board, and its legal legacy, overlooking the largely female-dominated professions that were responsible for operating the program outside of the provincial mental health institutions. This paper investigates the relationship between eugenics and the professions of teaching, public health nursing, and social work. It argues that the Canadian mental hygiene and eugenics movements, which were fundamentally connected, provided these professions with an opportunity to maintain and extend their professional authority.

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Article Dyck, Erika (2014) Guest Editor 's Introduction: History of Eugenics Revisited. Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine (pp. 7-16). unapi

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