Keeping America Sane: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880 1940 by Ian Robert Dowbiggin

Keeping America Sane: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880 1940

Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry

Ian Robert Dowbiggin

272 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction health history challenging informative medium-paced
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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 American and Canadian psychiatrists ...

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