title: [Eugenics and public health: legal sterilization of mentally ill in the Vaud canton (Switzerland)].
abstract: 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.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ehrenström
mesh_terms: D005053:Eugenics / Q000266:history*; D005260:Female; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000266:history*; D013245:Sterilization, Reproductive / Q000266:history*; D013557:Switzerland
vernacular_title: Eugénisme et santé publique: la stérilisation légale des malades mentaux dans le canton de Vaud (Suisse).