Sterilization for human betterment : a summary of results of 6,000 operations in California, 1909-1929 / by E.S. Gosney ... and Paul Popenoe.

  • Gosney, E. S. (Ezra Seymour), 1855-1942.
Date:
1929
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Credit: Sterilization for human betterment : a summary of results of 6,000 operations in California, 1909-1929 / by E.S. Gosney ... and Paul Popenoe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION newspaper work, as city editor of one of the Pasa¬ dena daily papers; he resigned this position to become agricultural explorer in northern Africa and the Orient. He gave up this position to become editor of the Journal of Heredity in Wash¬ ington, D. C., in 1913. When America entered the World War he resigned this position to join the field forces as lieutenant; later he was attached to the staff of the surgeon general of the army and as captain was placed in charge of the enforcement of the laws prohibiting prostitu¬ tion and the sale of intoxicants in the vicinity of the soldiers' camps, which position he held until the close of the war. He was then made ex¬ ecutive secretary of the American Social Hygiene Association in New York, which position he re¬ signed a few years ago and returned to California to pursue more intensively his studies of eugenics and heredity. He is the author of many maga¬ zine articles on these subjects and of five stand¬ ard books on eugenics and heredity. Our execu¬ tive board agree with me that we were most fortunate in securing Mr. Popenoe for this en¬ terprise. In this work, we have also had the cooperation and aid of many students of eugenics and heredity throughout this country and in Europe, besides the active assistance of an advisory board consist- [xi]