Abstract
The history of eugenic sterilization especially as it applies to psychiatry is discussed. Theoretical advances in the study of heredity the spread of Galtons philosophy from England to America and the development of sterilization without castration (vasectomy salpingectomy) were among the factors promoting the practice of sterilization in the U.S. in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Although 24 of 27 present state sterilization laws are compulsory most of the states still enforcing these laws use procedures in which consent must be obtained of the patient his next of kin his guardian or more than 1 person. In the past the psychiatrist has played a role as a human public administrator and a scientific critic of eugenic sterilization laws. Today he should be in the forefront of those insisting upon the laws being voluntary.
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