SOCB50H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sexual Sterilization Act Of Alberta, Malum Prohibitum, Leilani Muir
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Week 5 - october 4 th , 2016: october 18th (in-class, 5-8 saqs, ideas and arguments made in class or articles, mala en se, mala prohibita. Gomme reading: objectivist, subjectivist approach, connotative and denotative meaning, semiotics. Practice of looking reading: issue of illegal immigration harmful to society and america values. Is this mala en se, or mala prohibita: differences in the eugenics movements in alberta and ontario. Leilani muir: 1928 sexual sterilization act in alberta. Moral campaign : 1937 law was changed to remove consent provision. Consent from patient was no longer required to carry out sterilization or other medical operations. Amounted to a type of experimentation on these humans. Woman imprisoned in the hospital for 50 years because she refused to be sterilized: 1972 law was repealed, 2, 882 sterilizations (55 in the last year, died last february (2016, flood gate to claims.
