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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    INDEX compulsory, 179 court hearing before, 180 deaths from, xiv, 79 different reasons for, 157 effect on health, 91 failures in, xiii, 147 failures of, 79 fatalities from, 71 followed by marriage, xv, 42 for asthma, 66 for convenience, 83 for fibroids, 61 for harelip, 66 for narrow pelvis, 60, 65, 70 history of, viii, 143, 144 in private practice, 176 in California, summary of results of, xiii laws concerning, xv legal prerequisites of, 175 methods of, 155 of syphilitics, 95 operations in California, 183, 184 private, XV procedure for, 178 Roman Catholic view of, 186 technique of, 154 temporary, 76, 78, 147 therapeutic, xv, 87, 175 voluntary, 181 Stockton State Hospital, 183 Supervision of defectives, 113 Supreme Court, decision of U. S., ix, 17, 69 Surgeon, duty of, 85 Sweden, sterilization in, 18 Switzerland, castration in, 18, 97 sterilization in, 18 Syphilis, sterilization in, 95 Terman, Lewis M., xii, 194 Theis, Sophie Van Senden, 149 Thyroid gland in pregnancy, 91 Tuberculosis, frequency of, 11 temporary sterilization in, 76 United States, amount of feeblemindedness in, 9 amount of mental disease in, 3 mentality of inhabitants of, vi Supreme Court, decision of, 69 Utah, sterilization in, 17, 172, 184 Vasectomy as a punishment, 94 attitude of wives toward, 27 deaths from, 79 effects of, 25, 79, 88 failures of, 79 first practice of, 77 history of, 147 reversibility of, 78 technique of, 78 Virginia, sterilization in, 17, 169, 173, 184 Vruwink, John, 194 War, loss of sons in, 84 Washington, sterilization in, 16, 17, 159, 172, 184 Webb, U. S., 160 West Virginia, sterilization in, 17 Winfield, Kansas, Home, 14 1]