Ehrenström P
Hist Philos Life Sci. 1993;15(2):205-27.
In 1928 the canton of Vaud (Switzerland) voted a bill which legalized eugenics sterilization. The sterilization of the mentally ill was a public-health measure among others. It fitted in a wide variety of policies whose aims were to increase the physical and psychical well-being of the population. Vaud eugenics was progressive, reformist and non-partisan. This paper examines the intellectual, social and political conditions of the 1928 bill.
1928年，沃州（瑞士）通过了一项法案，使优生绝育合法化。对精神病患者进行绝育是众多公共卫生措施之一。它符合旨在提高民众身心健康的各种政策。沃州的优生学是进步的、改良主义的且无党派的。本文考察了1928年该法案出台的知识、社会和政治背景。
