{"id":7924,"date":"2017-08-29T16:32:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T19:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/?p=7924"},"modified":"2017-09-02T19:06:38","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T22:06:38","slug":"eugenics-and-sterilization-in-the-united-states-1920-1950","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/eugenics-and-sterilization-in-the-united-states-1920-1950\/","title":{"rendered":"Eugenics and sterilization in the United States, 1920 &#8211; 1950"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">August 2017<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1590\/s0104-59702016000500011 \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7926\" src=\"http:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/0104-5970-hcsm-23-s1-0195-gf01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a>From the 1920s to the 1950s, California sterilized approximately 20,000 people based on a eugenic law that authorized doctors to perform reproductive surgeries on patients deemed unfit.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>In the paper\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1590\/s0104-59702016000500011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eugenics, sterilization, and historical memory in the United States,<\/a>\u00a0Alexandra Minna Stern and her team study medical records to investigate ethnic and gender bias in sterilization policies.<\/p>\n<p>Their\u00a0initial findings suggest that Spanish-surnamed patients were sterilized at higher rates than the general population.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>See in the blog:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/eugenics-and-sterilization-in-the-united-states\/\">Eugenics and sterilization in the United States<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/eugenics-and-sterilization-in-the-united-states\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-post-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Alex-home.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"83\" \/><\/a>In an interview to HCS-Manguinhos, Alexandra Stern, University of Michigan, talks about her initial findings related to ethnic and gender bias in sterilization policies.<\/p>\n<p>See\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scielo.br\/scielo.php?script=sci_issuetoc&amp;pid=0104-597020160009&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Latin Eugenics in a Transnational Context<\/a>.\u00a0Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos\u00a0vol.23\u00a0\u00a0supl.1\u00a0Rio de Janeiro\u00a0Dec.\u00a02016<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandra Minna Stern and her team at the University of Michigan reviews medical records to investigate ethnic and gender bias in sterilization 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