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Keeping America Sane
Author | : Ian Robert Dowbiggin |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Eugenics |
ISBN | : 9780801483981 |
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Psychiatrists at the end of the nineteenth century felt professionally vulnerable, Dowbiggin explains, because they were under intense pressure from state and provincial governments and from other physicians to reform their specialty. Eugenics ideas, which dominated public health policy making, seemed the best vehicle for catching up with the progress of science. Among the prominent psychiatrist-eugenicists Dowbiggin considers are G.
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