Samson Amy
Can Bull Med Hist. 2014;31(1):143-63. doi: 10.3138/cbmh.31.1.143.
Scholarship on Alberta's Sexual Sterilization Act (1928-1972) has focused on the high-level politics behind the legislation, its main administrative body, the Eugenics Board, and its legal legacy, overlooking the largely female-dominated professions that were responsible for operating the program outside of the provincial mental health institutions. This paper investigates the relationship between eugenics and the professions of teaching, public health nursing, and social work. It argues that the Canadian mental hygiene and eugenics movements, which were fundamentally connected, provided these professions with an opportunity to maintain and extend their professional authority.
关于阿尔伯塔省《性绝育法案》（1928 - 1972年）的学术研究主要聚焦于该立法背后的高层政治、其主要行政机构优生学委员会以及其法律遗产，却忽视了在省级精神卫生机构之外负责实施该计划的、主要由女性主导的职业群体。本文探讨了优生学与教学、公共卫生护理及社会工作等职业之间的关系。文章认为，加拿大的精神卫生和优生学运动在根本上相互关联，为这些职业提供了维护和扩大其职业权威的契机。
