Eugenics continued

I'm still googling around about the eugenics post (sorry that I moved the essay to another site).

Here is a pdf article on the mental health reforms.

In some ways it is a whitewash: it notes Douglas' eugenic background but insists he changed his mind.

And it insists that Sigurst "toured the province" before writing the report on how to reform medicine, but as I pointed out, the tour/meetings and writing of the report took less than 30 days. This is impossible, and suggests what was done is that there was already a plan, and the tour/meetings were merely to confirm the report or maybe adjust it a tad.

Finally, it includes a report on the LDS experiments.

a CBS article on the California sterilization program.

a google book on eugenics in psychiatry Keeping America sane...there is a section on how the immigrants were feebleminded and filling up jails and asylums...that might be why Mrs. Caswell and others note all those immgrants from eastern europe being sterilized. check before and after page 179.

long discussion on how immigrants, especially Jewish immigrants with marxist beliefs, were called mental defective.

so what about the Indians and Metis?

try the oxford handbook of the history of Eugenics LINK