From the case files: Reconstructing a history of involuntary sterilisation

Disability and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 317-342

  Park, Deborah C ^a   Radford, John P ^b  

^a York University ^*  (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVISORY COMMITTEE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CASE REPORT; CONTRACEPTION; FEMALE; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HISTORY; HUMAN; JURISPRUDENCE; MALE; MEDICAL GENETICS; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES; MENTAL PATIENT; PATIENT SELECTION; POLICY; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL CONTROL; SOCIAL PROBLEM; STATISTICS;

GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES;

ADVISORY COMMITTEES; ALBERTA; EUGENICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HISTORY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; JURISPRUDENCE; MEN; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTALLY DISABLED PERSONS; MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; PATIENT SELECTION; PUBLIC POLICY; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL CONTROL, FORMAL; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; STATISTICS; STERILIZATION, INVOLUNTARY; WOMEN;

EID: 0032081563     PISSN: 09687599     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09687599826669     Document Type: Review

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