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 ing of the late Dr. J. H. McBride of Pasadena, Dr. George Dock of Pasadena, Henry M. Robin¬ son of Los Angeles, Chancellor David Starr Jor¬ dan and Professor Lewis M. Terman of Stanford University, Professors S. J. Holmes and H. M. Evans of the University of California, Dean Jus¬ tin Miller of the College of Law, University of Southern California, Otis H. Castle and Joe G. Crick of Los Angeles and Pasadena, and C. M. Goethe of Sacramento. Every manuscript has been submitted, before publication, to each of the members of this board, as well as to a large num¬ ber of other consultants for whose advice and suggestions we are grateful. We are particularly indebted to Dr. Robert L. Dickinson, secretary of the Committee on Mater¬ nal Health, for putting at our disposal his wide knowledge and long experience in the medical and surgical aspects of sterilization; to Dr. H. H. Laughlin, superintendent of the Eugenics Record Office, who has followed the development of ster¬ ilization in the United States more closely than any other student; to the American Eugenics Society for constant and hearty cooperation, and to Major Leonard Darwin, honorary president of The Eugenics Society (London), for his active interest and encouragement. Our publication and research work is now [xii]