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The Problem of Mental Deficiency: Eugenics, Democracy, and Social Policy in Britain C. 1870-1959

The Problem of Mental Deficiency: Eugenics, Democracy, and Social Policy in Britain C. 1870-1959

Thomson, Mathew

Hardcover

Series: Oxford Historical Monographs

LinguisticsBritish HistorySocial Movements

ISBN10: 0198206925
ISBN13: 9780198206927
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: May 14 1998
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.09 Width: 5.74 Depth: 8.82
Language: English
This is the first full study of the great alarm about mental defectives in Britain between 1870 and 1959, and the resulting policies of segregation, community care, and sexual sterilization. Mathew Thomson examines the origins of these policies in central government and shows how they were put into practice by health professionals and local authorities. He reveals how policy-makers avoided extremist measures such as compulsory sterilization (introduced in Germany and parts of the US during this period), not for reasons of liberal principle but because of the socially conservative and anti-interventionlist nature of British political culture.

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