Report of the Departmental Committee on Sterilisation (minus appendices) / with preface by The Lord Horder ; reproduced with the permission of the Controller of H.M.S.O. and obtainable from the Joint Committee on Voluntary Sterilisation.
- Great Britain. Board of Control. Committee on Sterilisation.
- Date:
- 1934
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report of the Departmental Committee on Sterilisation (minus appendices) / with preface by The Lord Horder ; reproduced with the permission of the Controller of H.M.S.O. and obtainable from the Joint Committee on Voluntary Sterilisation. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![REPORT OF DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE ON STERILISATION. CHAPTER i.— INTRODUCTORY (i) Procedure. (ii) Preliminary general considerations. (a) Legal position. (b) Concept of mental defect. (c) The extent of the problem. CHAPTER J].—PRESENT KNOWLEDGE OF THE CAUSATION OF MENTAL DEFECT. (a) Preliminary considerations. (b) Some previous enquiries. (c) Examination of offspring of defectives. (d) The influence of environment and its relation to heredity. (e) General conclusions on the causation of mental defect. CHAPTER III.—PRESENT KNOWLEDGE OF THE CAUSATION OF MENTAL DISORDERS (a) Preliminary considerations. (6) Causation of particular types of mental disorder. (c) General conclusions on the causation of mental disorder. CHAPTER IV.—RESULTS OF STERILIZATION (a) Physiological and psychological. (b) Social. CHAPTER V—DomINnIon AND ForREIGN LEGISLATION CHAPTER VI.—RECOMMENDATIONS (a) General conclusions and recommendations as to sterilization. (6) Procedure and safeguards. (c) Operations recommended. CHAPTER VII.—SuccEstep RESEARCH CHAPTER VIII.—Conciusion aNpD SUMMARY OF PRINCIPAL RECOMMENDA- TIONS.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32178566_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
