Keeping America Sane
Download or Read eBook Keeping America Sane PDF written by Ian Robert Dowbiggin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Ian Robert Dowbiggin |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1997 |
ISBN-10 | : 0801483980 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780801483981 |
Rating | : 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Keeping America Sane by : Ian Robert Dowbiggin
Book excerpt: Psychiatrists at the end of the nineteenth century felt professionally vulnerable, Dowbiggin explains, because they were under intense pressure from state and provincial governments and from other physicians to reform their specialty. Eugenics ideas, which dominated public health policy making, seemed the best vehicle for catching up with the progress of science. Among the prominent psychiatrist-eugenicists Dowbiggin considers are G.