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P Ehrenström

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PubMed1993

[Eugenics and public health: legal sterilization of mentally ill in the Vaud canton (Switzerland)].

In 1928 the canton of Vaud (Switzerland) voted a bill which legalized eugenics sterilization. The sterilization of the mentally ill was a public-health measure among others. It fitted in a wide variety of policies whose aims were to increase the physical and psychical well-being of the population. Vaud eugenics was progressive, reformist and non-partisan. This paper examines the intellectual, social and political conditions of the 1928 bill.

Eugenics↗
PubMed1991

[Surgical sterilization and mental disorder. A case study].

The author examines the intellectual, social and political conditions which permitted the introduction of compulsory sterilization of mentally ill as a lawful measure in the Canton of Vaud in 1928. Essential was the fear of "degenerated" and socially harmful progeny prejudicial to the existing order. The victims of this regulation were mostly feeble-minded women--the poorest and least respected members of community.

History, 20th Century↗