SOCB50H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: The Mcclatchy Company, Mental Health, Intellectual Disability
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British columbia and alberta in passing legislation for the sterilization of the feebleminded and its supervision buy boards of eugenics went to ferguson and putting into action the hereditarian program. The cncmh was created in 1918 by clarence hanks what after having read clifford. Beard i"(cid:373) (cid:373)i(cid:374)d that sou(cid:374)ded self set out to orga(cid:374)ize a (cid:373)o(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)t i(cid:374) ca(cid:374)ada. The feebleminded wayne hanks field at best drain on the community and at worst potential criminals. Through its activities the cncmh served as a launching pad for both the psychiatric and psychology profession in canada. The society appears never to have had more than 100 members that many occupied positions of some importance and breakdown of the membership reveals reveals it was. 2 not the narrowly academic macklin had envisaged a rather a society dominated by the members of the medical and welfare positions with a sprinkling of representatives from the religious business political and academic world.
