“For her own safety and the good of society at large”: Eugenics, Sterilization, and Anglo-American Transnationalism in Newfoundland, 1928-1934
From 1928 to 1934, about half of the two dozen women who were surgically sterilized while under the care of American doctors working with the International Grenfell Association (IGA) in St. Anthony, Newfoundland, were sterilized because they were deemed to be mentally unfit or substandard. These ste...
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ftuninewbrunojs:oai:ojs.journals.lib.unb.ca:article/28983 2023-05-15T17:20:45+02:00 “For her own safety and the good of society at large”: Eugenics, Sterilization, and Anglo-American Transnationalism in Newfoundland, 1928-1934 Connor, J. T. H. 2019-03-01 text/html application/pdf https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/view/28983 eng eng Acadiensis Press https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/view/28983/1882521852 https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/view/28983/1882521853 https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/view/28983 Copyright (c) 2019 Acadiensis Acadiensis; Vol. 48 No. 1 (2019) 1712-7432 0044-5851 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 2019 ftuninewbrunojs 2022-07-11T11:40:57Z From 1928 to 1934, about half of the two dozen women who were surgically sterilized while under the care of American doctors working with the International Grenfell Association (IGA) in St. Anthony, Newfoundland, were sterilized because they were deemed to be mentally unfit or substandard. These sterilizations coincided with rising concern about feebleminded persons and eugenic and legislative solutions across the United States, the British Empire, and beyond, but Newfoundland did not develop a eugenic movement nor did it enact laws to sanction surgical sterilization. What happened in St. Anthony was a result of the otherwise beneficial “Americanization” of the IGA. Environ la moitié des deux douzaines de femmes qui subirent une stérilisation chirurgicale entre 1928 et 1934 alors qu’elles étaient soignées par des médecins américains qui travaillaient pour l’International Grenfell Association (IGA) à St. Anthony (Terre-Neuve) furent stérilisées parce qu’elles étaient considérées comme mentalement inaptes ou inférieures. Ces stérilisations coïncidaient avec la montée des préoccupations suscitées par les personnes d’esprit faible et des solutions eugéniques et législatives adoptées aux États-Unis, dans l’empire britannique et au-delà. Aucun mouvement eugénique ne vit cependant le jour à Terre-Neuve, qui n’adopta pas de lois pour approuver la stérilisation chirurgicale. Ce qui se produisit à St. Anthony était le résultat de l’américanisation de l’IGA, qui fut par ailleurs bénéfique. Article in Journal/Newspaper Newfoundland Terre-Neuve University of New Brunswick: Centre for Digital Scholarship Journals St. Anthony ENVELOPE(-55.597,-55.597,51.370,51.370) |
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From 1928 to 1934, about half of the two dozen women who were surgically sterilized while under the care of American doctors working with the International Grenfell Association (IGA) in St. Anthony, Newfoundland, were sterilized because they were deemed to be mentally unfit or substandard. These sterilizations coincided with rising concern about feebleminded persons and eugenic and legislative solutions across the United States, the British Empire, and beyond, but Newfoundland did not develop a eugenic movement nor did it enact laws to sanction surgical sterilization. What happened in St. Anthony was a result of the otherwise beneficial “Americanization” of the IGA. Environ la moitié des deux douzaines de femmes qui subirent une stérilisation chirurgicale entre 1928 et 1934 alors qu’elles étaient soignées par des médecins américains qui travaillaient pour l’International Grenfell Association (IGA) à St. Anthony (Terre-Neuve) furent stérilisées parce qu’elles étaient considérées comme mentalement inaptes ou inférieures. Ces stérilisations coïncidaient avec la montée des préoccupations suscitées par les personnes d’esprit faible et des solutions eugéniques et législatives adoptées aux États-Unis, dans l’empire britannique et au-delà. Aucun mouvement eugénique ne vit cependant le jour à Terre-Neuve, qui n’adopta pas de lois pour approuver la stérilisation chirurgicale. Ce qui se produisit à St. Anthony était le résultat de l’américanisation de l’IGA, qui fut par ailleurs bénéfique. |
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“For her own safety and the good of society at large”: Eugenics, Sterilization, and Anglo-American Transnationalism in Newfoundland, 1928-1934 |
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“For her own safety and the good of society at large”: Eugenics, Sterilization, and Anglo-American Transnationalism in Newfoundland, 1928-1934 |
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“For her own safety and the good of society at large”: Eugenics, Sterilization, and Anglo-American Transnationalism in Newfoundland, 1928-1934 |
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“For her own safety and the good of society at large”: Eugenics, Sterilization, and Anglo-American Transnationalism in Newfoundland, 1928-1934 |
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“For her own safety and the good of society at large”: Eugenics, Sterilization, and Anglo-American Transnationalism in Newfoundland, 1928-1934 |
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“for her own safety and the good of society at large”: eugenics, sterilization, and anglo-american transnationalism in newfoundland, 1928-1934 |
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