CERTAIN MEDICAL AND LEGAL PHASES OF EUGENIC STERILIZATION
Authors: Abraham Myerson
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1943)

Article1 April 1943CERTAIN MEDICAL AND LEGAL PHASES OF EUGENIC STERILIZATIONABRAHAM MYERSON, M.D.ABRAHAM MYERSON, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-18-4-580 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptEvery program which proposes a reformation of society, whether in its biologic or sociologic structure, awakens fierce controversy which is usually independent of the merits of the situation. This controversy becomes the greater whenever sex or reproduction becomes the focus of the reform, since nowhere in the tangled web of human emotion and ideology is there more non-rationally based conduct than in this field. Therefore, it is to be expected that the points of view concerning eugenic sterilization disregard the essentials of proof and, like politics, the camps of the proponents and opponents of sterilization find strange bed-fellows.There are...References1. DAYTON NA: New facts on mental disorders. Study of 89,190 cases, 1940, C. C. Thomas Co., Springfield, Illinois. Google Scholar2. BLUHM A: Darf die Erblichkeit der Alkoholschäden als bewiesen gelten? (Is the heredity of alcohol damage proven?), Ztschr. f. Sexualwissensch., 1931, xviii, 145-151. Google Scholar3. DIEM O: Die psychoneurotische erbliche Belastung der Geistesgesunden und der Geisteskranken, Arch. f. Rass. u. Gesselsch. Biol., 1905, ii, 89. Google Scholar4. ELDERTONPEARSON EK: A first study of the influence of parental alcoholism on the physique and ability of the offspring, Eugen. Lab. Mems., 1910, 10. Google Scholar5. MOORE M: Alcoholism: some contemporary opinions, New England Jr. Med., 1941, ccxxiv, 848-857. 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