Human Sterilization: A History of the Sexual Sterilization Movement

Sexual sterilization--constitutional validity of involuntary sterilization and consent determinative of voluntariness.

Sterilization.

Sterilization Methods and the Comparison of E-Beam Sterilization with Gamma Radiation Sterilization

Sterilization is used in a varity of industry field and a strictly required process for some products used in sterile regions of the body like some medical devices and parenteral drugs. Although there are many kinds of sterilization methods according to physicochemical properties of the substances, the use of radiation in sterilization has many advantages depending on its substantially less tox...

The Sterilization of Lipovaccines

Pneumococcus lipovacdne confers a definite protection against pneumococcus infection in mice. The protective quality is not destroyed, and apparently is not greatly diminished, by heating to 130 degrees C. for 3 hours or 120 degrees C. for 12 hours. Typhoid lipovaccine gives rise to the formation of agglutinins in rabbits but to a lesser degree than saline suspensions. The antigenic qualities o...

The sterilization of dressings.

The application of moist heat in an autoclave is the best method of sterilizing dressings. In order to kill the most resistant pathogenic spores they must be exposed for at least 20 minutes to saturated steam at 1210 C. (Ministry of Health, 1955). At this temperature pure steam exerts a pressure of 15 lb./sq. in. The steam should be dry but at the phase boundary between liquid and vapour, so th...