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- catalog 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. 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.".
- catalog contributor b10268801.
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description "An exodus of enthusiasm : psychiatry in Canada and the United States, 1880-1920 -- A confusing wildness of recommendations : G. Alder Blumer, eugenics, and U.S. psychiatry, 1880-1940 -- Keeping this young country sane : C.K. Clarke, eugenics, and Canadian psychiatry, 1890-1940 -- A question of public health : psychiatry, eugenics, and immigration in the United States, 1880-1925 -- Conclusion : reflections on the history of eugenics.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 245 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0801433568 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0801483980".
- catalog isPartOf "Cornell studies in the history of psychiatry".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Canada".
- catalog spatial "Canada.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "1997 I-376".
- catalog subject "616.89/00973 21".
- catalog subject "Eugenics Canada.".
- catalog subject "Eugenics United States.".
- catalog subject "Mental Disorders prevention & control Canada.".
- catalog subject "Mental Disorders prevention & control United States.".
- catalog subject "Mental illness Prevention Government policy Canada.".
- catalog subject "Mental illness Prevention Government policy United States.".
- catalog subject "Psychiatry Canada History.".
- catalog subject "Psychiatry United States History.".
- catalog subject "Public Policy Canada.".
- catalog subject "Public Policy United States.".
- catalog subject "RA790.5 .D69 1997".
- catalog subject "WM 11 AA1 D68k 1997".
- catalog tableOfContents "An exodus of enthusiasm : psychiatry in Canada and the United States, 1880-1920 -- A confusing wildness of recommendations : G. Alder Blumer, eugenics, and U.S. psychiatry, 1880-1940 -- Keeping this young country sane : C.K. Clarke, eugenics, and Canadian psychiatry, 1890-1940 -- A question of public health : psychiatry, eugenics, and immigration in the United States, 1880-1925 -- Conclusion : reflections on the history of eugenics.".
- catalog title "Keeping America sane : psychiatry and eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880-1940 / Ian Robert Dowbiggin.".
- catalog type "text".