Keeping America sane : psychiatry and eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880-1940 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dowbiggin, Ian Robert, 1952-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, [2003]
Series:	Cornell studies in the history of psychiatry.
Subjects:	Mental illness > Prevention > Government policy > United States. Eugenics > United States. Mental illness > Prevention > Government policy > Canada. Eugenics > Canada.

Table of Contents:

An exodus of enthusiasm : psychiatry in Canada and the United States, 1880-1920
A confusing wildness of recommendations : G. Alder Blumer, eugenics, and U.S. psychiatry, 1880-1940
Keeping this young country sane : C.K. Clarke, eugenics, and Canadian psychiatry, 1890-1940
A question of public health : psychiatry, eugenics, and immigration in the United States, 1880-1925
Conclusion : reflections on the history of eugenics.