Erika Dyck: 2 books
Managing Madness
Weyburn Mental Hospital and the Transformation of Psychiatric Care in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
The Saskatchewan Mental Hospital at Weyburn has played a significant role in the history of psychiatric services, mental health research, and providing care in the community. Its history provides a window to the changing nature of mental health services over the 20th century. Built in 1921, Saskatchewan...
Facing Eugenics
Reproduction, Sterilization, and the Politics of Choice
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Facing Eugenics is a social history of sexual sterilization operations in twentieth-century Canada. Looking at real-life experiences of men and women who, either coercively or voluntarily, participated in the largest legal eugenics program in Canada, it considers the impact of successive legal policies...