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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    Sterilization for Human Betterment и By R S. GOSNEY, B.S., LX.B, and PAUL POPENOE, D.Sc. THE United States Supreme Court has in the past few years sustained the legaHty of eugenic steril' Ì2,ation of hereditary defectives, and public, opinion is coming more and more to consider it a protection, not a penalty. Over 6,000 steriliziations had been per' formed in the one state of California prior to January 1, 1929, and the authors have traced the records and results of these sterilisations as far as possible. The first part of the book is devoted to a summary of the author's findings, and the second part, to some conclusions to which these findings and a general соп' sideration of sterilÍ2¡ations have led. The authors par' ticularly point out that sterilization destroys no organ or gland of the body, and shows no effect upon sex desire, sex performance, or sex feeling of the subject, thus removing some of the principal objections advanced by opponents of this social and economic measure, so long contemplated and now seriously considered. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Publishers New York Ji,! ЛК