Eugenic Sterilization

Polish Psychiatrists and Eugenic Sterilization During the Interwar Period

During the interwar period in Poland, the medical profession (especially psychiatrists) were very much in favor of eugenics and proposed several sterilization bills to the health authority, all of which included involuntary and compulsory sterilization of specified groups of individuals. The bills were rejected and no sterilization law was passed in Poland. In Polish historiography, the extermi...

“To End the Degeneration of a Nation”: Debates on Eugenic Sterilization in Inter-war Romania

Among various programmes of biological engineering developed in the twentieth century eugenic sterilization is one of the most notorious. The reasons are numerous, ranging from its application under the Nazi regime to its post-1945 application in the Scandinavian countries, the recent sterilization of the Roma in the Czech Republic, and China’s birth planning policies. Yet it is only in the pas...

['Negative' eugenics, psychiatry, and Catholicism: clashes over eugenic sterilization in Brazil].

The article analyzes the dialogue between eugenicist Renato Kehl and a group of Brazilian psychiatrists who turned their interest to so-called negative eugenics in the early 1930s. Enthused about research into eugenics and the application of eugenic methods in countries such as the United States and Germany, authors like Ernani Lopes, Ignácio da Cunha Lopes, Alberto Farani, and Antonio Carlos P...

Eugenics in the community: gendered professions and eugenic sterilization in Alberta, 1928-1972.

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 betw...

Eugenic recognition in Canadian law.