Add to ORKGBritish Columbia enacted "An Act Respecting Sexual Sterilization" on April 1, 1933 and repealed the Act on April 18, 1973. Through historical research, this thesis investigates the reasons for both the enactment and repeal of the Act. Also, the thesis describes the changing status of surgical sterilization during those years. Surgical sterilization initially began as a form of genetic selection for those in institutions. By the 1940s there was demand from the public that this procedure be available. It was not until the 1960s that voluntary surgical sterilization became available, but not without much debate as to whether the procedure was legal outside of the Act. By the 1970s, voluntary sterilization was accessible. The Act wa...
For more than 50 years, sterilization of mentally retarded persons was an accepted practice in many ...
B H. Surgical sterilisation of men and women. In: Population, 18ᵉ année, n°2, 1963. p. 374
Since sterilization is a drastic remedy and generally a permanent infringement of bodily integrity, ...
In 1933 the Provincial Government of British Columbia legalized the sterilizations of individuals at...
Although, the histories of forced sterilizations and eugenics practices have been all but forgotten ...
In light of its past eugenic use, and its often irreversible nature, non-therapeutic sterilization, ...
The sterilizations of over 200,000 Americans is an often forgotten part of Western science’s not so ...
The question, or rather, the problem of sterilization of the unfit has been very forcibly carried in...
Between 1905 and 1945, 31 states in the Untied States and 2 provinces in Canada enacted sterilizatio...
The following thesis outlines the historical significance of Bill C-150, the Omnibus Criminal Code R...
(Under the direction of Johnathan O’Neill) The science of human breeding, known as eugenics, flouris...
This article describes findings from empirical research examining sterilization applications for min...
***Reprinted with permission. No further reproduction is authorized without written permission from ...
Nearly a century ago, the Supreme Court sanctioned compulsory sterilization in Buck v. Bell, echoing...
Between 1905 and 1945, 31 states in the Untied States and 2 provinces in Canada enacted sterilizatio...
For more than 50 years, sterilization of mentally retarded persons was an accepted practice in many ...
B H. Surgical sterilisation of men and women. In: Population, 18ᵉ année, n°2, 1963. p. 374
Since sterilization is a drastic remedy and generally a permanent infringement of bodily integrity, ...
In 1933 the Provincial Government of British Columbia legalized the sterilizations of individuals at...
Although, the histories of forced sterilizations and eugenics practices have been all but forgotten ...
In light of its past eugenic use, and its often irreversible nature, non-therapeutic sterilization, ...
The sterilizations of over 200,000 Americans is an often forgotten part of Western science’s not so ...
The question, or rather, the problem of sterilization of the unfit has been very forcibly carried in...
Between 1905 and 1945, 31 states in the Untied States and 2 provinces in Canada enacted sterilizatio...
The following thesis outlines the historical significance of Bill C-150, the Omnibus Criminal Code R...
(Under the direction of Johnathan O’Neill) The science of human breeding, known as eugenics, flouris...
This article describes findings from empirical research examining sterilization applications for min...
***Reprinted with permission. No further reproduction is authorized without written permission from ...
Nearly a century ago, the Supreme Court sanctioned compulsory sterilization in Buck v. Bell, echoing...
Between 1905 and 1945, 31 states in the Untied States and 2 provinces in Canada enacted sterilizatio...
For more than 50 years, sterilization of mentally retarded persons was an accepted practice in many ...
B H. Surgical sterilisation of men and women. In: Population, 18ᵉ année, n°2, 1963. p. 374
Since sterilization is a drastic remedy and generally a permanent infringement of bodily integrity, ...
