In the name of therapeutics: The practice of sterilization in a California State Hospital

Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 29-51

  Braslow, Joel T ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRACEPTION; FEMALE; HISTORY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL GENETICS; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; EUGENICS; FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HOSPITALS, STATE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; STERILIZATION, INVOLUNTARY; STERILIZATION, REPRODUCTIVE;

EID: 0029678287     PISSN: 00225045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhmas/51.1.29     Document Type: Article

References (1)

1. For a more patient-oriented perspective on sterilization, see Steven Noll, "Patient records as historical stories: The case of Caswell Training School," Bull. Hist. Med., 1994, 68, 411-28, pp. 418-19.