Keeping America Sane: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada 1880-1940.(Book Review)

Ian Robert Dowbiggin. Keeping America Sane: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada 1880-1940. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003. xvi + 245 pp.

In Keeping America Sane, Ian Robert Dowbiggin explores how psychiatry in Canada and the United States embraced, and then rejected, eugenics during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. He examines the case for and against eugenics in the two countries with uneven results. While a bit heavy on the personal and professional details of individual practitioners and a little light on the big ...

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