SOCWORK 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Leilani Muir, Eugenics
3 Sep 2018
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Institutionalize "feeble-minded" and prevented them from having children. Helen macmurchy: ontario"s special inspector for the "feeble-minded", 1906-19 . Published "the almosts: a study of the feeble minded" in 1920: "populist"- appealed to a wide audience. Eugenics: popular movement, strongest in western canada, alberta-the early adopters . United farm women of alberta (health, education and social welfare) . 1921 the ufwa rise to power (supplied and drafted eugenics legislation: "deal society, prevent reproduction, ideologically driven, discussion centred on blood lines, education and thinking of ways to prevent pregnancy, "sexual sterilization act" passes in 1928 in alberta. Institutionalized at age 11- no tests, diagnostic, purely false info of her mother. Age 13, took a diagnostic test rather than a test of ability scored low and diagnosed as a. "moron: eugenics board approved sterilization based on this test .
