Courts: Scope of Authority: Sterilization of Mental Defectives
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Sterilization of Mental Defectives
1. THAT there should not at present be any revision or re-issue of the pamphlet on Sterilisation (now out of print) issued by the Association in 1923, and containing the conclusions arrived at by the Medical Committee, the Medical Committee in general being in agreement with the views expressed in the pamphlet dealing with the same subject, written by Dr. Tredgold and published by the Associati...
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عنوان ژورنال: Michigan Law Review
سال: 1963
ISSN: 0026-2234
DOI: 10.2307/1286572