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Review
. 2001 Oct;175(4):280-3.
doi: 10.1136/ewjm.175.4.280.

In the patient's best interest? Revisiting sexual autonomy and sterilization of the developmentally disabled

H H Pham  1 , B H Lerner
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In the patient's best interest? Revisiting sexual autonomy and sterilization of the developmentally disabled

H H Pham et al. West J Med. 2001 Oct.
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Mara poses in front of a device for measuring the difference in size between Aryan and non-Aryan skulls, Berlin, 1933. Roman Vishniac. Gelatin silver print. ©Mara Vishniac Kohn, courtesy of the International Center of Photography
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American eugenicists believed that “degenerates” should not reproduce From the collection of the American Philosophical Society
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