5 Eugenics in Manitoba and the Sterilization Controversy of 1933

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Prologue: Eugenics and Its Study xvii
6. List of Illustrations xxiii
7. Introduction 1
8. 1 John M. MacEachran and Eugenics in Alberta: Victorian Sensibilities, Idealist Philosophy, and Detached Efficiency 37
9. 2 The Consequences of Eugenic Sterilization in Alberta 57
10. 3 The Involvement of Nurses in the Eugenics Program in Alberta, 1920–1940 87
11. 4 The Alberta Eugenics Movement and the 1937 Amendment to the Sexual Sterilization Act 103
12. 5 Eugenics in Manitoba and the Sterilization Controversy of 1933 119
13. 6 “New Fashioned with Respect to the Human Race”: American Eugenics in the Media at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 137
14. 7 The “Eugenics Paradox”: Core Beliefs of Progressivism versus Relics of Medical Traditionalism—The Example of Kurt Goldstein 159
15. 8 Too Little, Too Late: Compensation for Victims of Coerced Sterilization 181
16. 9 Commentary One 199
17. 10 Commentary Two 209
18. Conclusion: Lessons from the History of Eugenics 217
19. Appendix: Sexual Sterilization, Four Years Experience in Alberta 233
20. Notes 253
21. Bibliography 323
22. Contributors 369
23. Index 375