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Stern A. - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Esterilizadas en nombre de la salud pública: raza, inmigración y control reproductivo en California en el siglo XX
Universidad de Guadalajara Centro Universitario de Ciencias de la Salud (CUCS) University of New Mexico Latin America Knowledge Harvester (LAKH), 2008Co-Authors: Stern A.Abstract:Abstract of the article referenced in the citation field. Original in Spanish.Objectives: To explore the intersection between the factors of race, sex, immigration, Sterilization and health policy, tracing the chronology and context of Involuntary Sterilization in the state of California, USA.U.S. Department of Education Title VI TICFIA (Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access) P337A050005, University of New Mexico/Universidad de Guadalajara Centro Universitario de Ciencias de la Salud (CUCS
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Sterilized in the name of public health: Race, immigration and reproductive control in California in the twentieth century
UNM Digital Repository, 2008Co-Authors: Stern A.Abstract:Objectives: To explore the intersection between the factors of race, sex, immigration, Sterilization and health policy, tracing the chronology and context of Involuntary Sterilization in the state of California, USA
Stern, Alexandra Minna - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Esterilizadas en nombre de la Salud Pública: raza, inmigración y control reproductivo en California en el siglo XX
'Universidad Nacional de Lanus', 2006Co-Authors: Stern, Alexandra MinnaAbstract:This article explores the history of Involuntary Sterilization in California, connecting the approximately 20.000 operations performed on patients in state institutions between 1909 and 1979 to the federally funded procedures carried out at Los Angeles County Hospital in the early 1970s. In addition to highlighting the confluence of factors that facilitated a widespread Sterilization abuse in the early 1970s, this article traces the longevity of pro-Sterilization arguments predicated on the protection of the public health and resources. This historical overview raises important questions about the lingering legacy of eugenics in contemporary California and the ongoing struggle for women's reproductive rights in the Americas.Al explorar la historia de la esterilización involuntaria en California en este artículo, me propongo vincular las aproximadamente 20.000 operaciones realizadas a pacientes en instituciones estatales entre 1909 y 1979 con los procedimientos solventados por el gobierno federal llevados a cabo en el Hospital del Condado de Los Ángeles a principios de los años '70. Al subrayar la confluencia de factores que facilitaron el abuso generalizado de la esterilización a principios de los '70, rastreo los argumentos a favor de la esterilización que fueron sostenidos en pro de la protección de la salud pública. Este panorama histórico suscita preguntas importantes sobre el legado de la eugenesia en California hoy, y relaciona el pasado con avances recientes en la atención de la salud y en investigación genética
Alexandra Minna Stern - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Sterilized in the name of public health: Race, immigration, and reproductive control in modern California
American Journal of Public Health, 2005Co-Authors: Alexandra Minna SternAbstract:In exploring the history of Involuntary Sterilization in California, I connect the approximately 20,000 operations performed on patients in state institutions between 1909 and 1979 to the federally funded procedures carried out at a Los Angeles County hospital in the early 1970s. Highlighting the confluence of factors that facilitated widespread Sterilization abuse in the early 1970s, I trace proSterilization arguments predicated on the protection of public health. This historical overview raises important questions about the legacy of eugenics in contemporary California and relates the past to recent developments in health care delivery and genetic screening.
Anna Stubblefield - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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beyond the pale tainted whiteness cognitive disability and eugenic Sterilization
Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 2007Co-Authors: Anna StubblefieldAbstract:The aim of the eugenics movement in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century was to prevent the degeneration of the white race. A central tactic of the movement was the Involuntary Sterilization of people labeled as feebleminded. An analysis of the practice of eugenic Sterilization provides insight into how the concepts of gender, race, class, and dis/ability are fundamentally intertwined. I argue that in the early twentieth century, the concept of feeblemindedness came to operate as an umbrella concept that linked off-white ethnicity, poverty, and gendered conceptions of lack of moral character together and that feeblemindedness thus understood functioned as the signifier of tainted whiteness.
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Beyond the pale”: Tainted whiteness, cognitive disability, and eugenic Sterilization
2007Co-Authors: Anna StubblefieldAbstract:The aim of the eugenics movement in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century was to prevent the degeneration of the white race. A central tactic of the movement was the Involuntary Sterilization of people labeled as feebleminded. An analysis of the practice of eugenic Sterilization provides insight into how the concepts of gender, race, class, and dis/ability are fundamentally intertwined. I argue that in the early twentieth century, the concept of feeblemindedness came to operate as an umbrella concept that linked off-white ethnicity, poverty, and gendered conceptions of lack of moral character together and that feeblemindedness thus understood functioned as the signifier of tainted whiteness. The aim of the eugenics movement in the united States during the first half of the twentieth century was to prevent the degeneration of the white race. A central tactic of the movement was the Involuntary Sterilization of people labeled feebleminded. Between 1927 and 1957, approximately 60,000 Ameri-cans labeled either feebleminded or insane underwent Sterilization at state institutions in the name of eugenics. Sixty percent of those sterilized wer
Andrea Patterson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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germs and jim crow the impact of microbiology on public health policies in progressive era american south
Journal of the History of Biology, 2009Co-Authors: Andrea PattersonAbstract:Race proved not merely a disadvantage in securing access to prompt and appropriate medical care, but often became a life and death issue for blacks in the American South during the early decades of the twentieth century. This article investigates the impact some of the new academic disciplines such as anthropology, evolutionary biology, racially based pathology and genetics had in promoting scientific racism. The disproportionately high morbidity and mortality rates among blacks were seen as a consequence of inherent racial deficiencies that rendered any attempt to ameliorate their situation as futile. While the belief in a different pathology in blacks initially deterred most health officials from taking any action, advances in medicine and microbiology, in particular the germ theory, stirred a variety of responses out of sheer self preservation, as fears among whites at the first sign of an epidemic initiated sporadic and limited actions. Ironically, in an era of deepening scientific racism, public health initiatives based on a better understanding of disease causing microorganisms, gradually improved black health. However, some public health measures were hijacked by eugenicists and racists and, rather than addressing the ill health of blacks, public health policy complied with the new laws of heredity by promoting drastic measures such as Involuntary Sterilization or even abortion. This further complicated the strained relationship between southern blacks and health care professionals and effected ongoing distrust towards public healthcare services.
