“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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| Language: | English |
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Acadiensis Press
2019
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| Online Access: | https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/view/28983 |