HLST 4010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Provincial Training School, Social Inequality, Alberta Hospital Edmonton

• School: York University
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLST 4010
• Professor: Geoffrey Reaume

Document Summary

Jana grekul, harvey krahn and dave odynak, sterilizing the feeble-minded": Eugenics in alberta, canada, 1929-1972, journal of historical sociology 17:4 (december 2004): 358-384. Between 1929 and 1972, the alberta eugenics board recommended that. Aboriginals were particularly targeted by the alberta eugenics board. Board pursued its sterilization mandate extremely aggressively and, because of a unique set of social, political and economic circumstances in the province, continued to operate long after other political jurisdictions in. North america had set aside their involuntary sterilization programs. Taylor 1997; mclaren 1990; paul 1995; rafter 1992; reilly 1991). Underneath such progressive goals lay solidly-entrenched patterns of structured social inequality and equally pervasive racist and sexist attitudes and beliefs (2) Eugenics movements and legislation in alberta: the focus on mental defectiveness intensified in the 1920s when dr. clarence. Hincks, professor of psychiatry at the university of toronto and general director of the canadian national committee on mental hygiene (cncmh), began to conduct research in alberta.