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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Foreword
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Prologue: Eugenics and Its Study
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. John M. MacEachran and Eugenics in Alberta: Victorian Sensibilities, Idealist Philosophy, and Detached Efficiency
  8. 2. The Consequences of Eugenic Sterilization in Alberta
  9. 3. The Involvement of Nurses in the Eugenics Program in Alberta, 1920–1940
  10. 4. The Alberta Eugenics Movement and the 1937 Amendment to the Sexual Sterilization Act
  11. 5. Eugenics in Manitoba and the Sterilization Controversy of 1933
  12. 6. “New Fashioned with Respect to the Human Race”: American Eugenics in the Media at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
  13. 7. The “Eugenics Paradox”: Core Beliefs of Progressivism versus Relics of Medical Traditionalism—The Example of Kurt Goldstein
  14. 8. Too Little, Too Late: Compensation for Victims of Coerced Sterilization
  15. 9. Commentary One
  16. 10. Commentary Two
  17. Conclusion: Lessons from the History of Eugenics
  18. Appendix: Sexual Sterilization, Four Years Experience in Alberta
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Contributors
  22. Index

Photo of the Eugenics Society Exhibit in 1930

“Eugenics Society Exhibit,” 1930, Photographs and Plans of Eugenics Society Exhibits, Eugenics Society Archive, London, SAEUG/G/30/40, Wellcome Library. Photograph courtesy of Wellcome Library.

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