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Problem of race betterment
History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mears, J. Ewing (James Ewing), 1838-1918, author.
- Series:
- History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century.
- History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Eugenics.
- Sterilization (Birth control).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (103 pages).
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- 1913
- Summary:
- The History of Disabilities program provides access to primary sources written using terminology that was in common use by the medical establishment and general society at the time, and describes diagnoses, methodologies, procedures, and treatments that may no longer be used or were debunked by later research. Users may come across words and expressions describing individuals and groups that they find condescending, upsetting, disconcerting, offensive, and not acceptable today. MiFhGG
- Notes:
- Includes contents of 1st ed. plus 2 papers read before the Georgia Medical Association, 1912 and 1913.
- Reproduction of the original from the New York Academy of Medicine.
- OCLC:
- 1477835702
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