Article ID: CBB001420272

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

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Samson, Amy (Author)


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

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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Authors & Contributors
Karissa R. Patton
Erna Kurbegović
Emily B. Kaliel
Malacrida, Claudia
Doetz, Susanne
Wheatley, Thelma
Concepts
Birth control; contraception; sterilization
Eugenics
Public health
Mental disorders and diseases
Science and gender
Women and health
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
Places
Alberta, Canada
Germany
Canada
Connecticut (U.S.)
Puerto Rico
United States
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