Keeping America sane
- Psychiatry and eugenics in the United States and Canada 1880-1940
Autor(es) - Ian Dowbiggin
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Using archival sources, the autor documents the involvement of both U.S. and Canadian psychiatrists in the eugenics movement of the early twentieh century. He shows why professional men and women comitted to helping those less fortunate than themselves arrived at such morally and intelectually dubious conclusions.
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Preface
Abbreviations
Introducing
1- An Exodus of Enthusiasm: psychiatry in Canada and the United States, 1880-1920
2- A Confusing wildness of Recommendations: G. Alder Blumer, Eugenics, and U.S. Psychiatry, 1880-1940
3- Keeping this young country sane: C. K. Clarke, Eugenics, and Canadian Psychiatry 1890-1940
4- A question of public health: psychiatry, eugenics, and immigration in the United States, 1880-1925
Conclusion: Reflections on the History of Eugenics
Index
- Formato: Capa dura 16.00*23.50
- Nº de páginas: 245
- Editado em: 1997
- Idioma: Inglês
- ISBN: 0801433568