Halting the 'sad degenerationist parade': medical concerns about heredity and racial degeneracy in New Zealand psychiatry, 1853-99.

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dc.contributor.authorDawson, Mark
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-07T22:42:20Z
dc.date.available2013-01-07T22:42:20Z
dc.date.copyright2012-01
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractHistorians have focused on early twentieth-century positive eugenics in New Zealand. In this article, I argue that the response came from a tradition of concern about heredity and white racial degeneracy, which extended beyond the British Empire. This article focuses on concerns about heredity at the Auckland Mental Hospital between 1850 and 1899, and contextualises these concerns in New Zealand mental hospital statistics from the late–nineteenth century. This article also considers Australasian, British, North and South American medical and immigration legislation history, and contrasts this with the legislation and medical discourses which formed part of a fear of heredity, racial degeneracy, immigration and mental illness in New Zealand.en_NZ
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dc.identifier.citationDawson, M. (2012). Halting the 'sad degenerationist parade': medical concerns about heredity and racial degeneracy in New Zealand psychiatry, 1853-99. Health and History, 14(1), 38-55.en_NZ
dc.identifier.doi10.5401/healthhist.14.1.0038en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10289/6991
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherAustralian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicineen_NZ
dc.relation.ispartofHealth and History
dc.rightsCopyright 2012 Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine. This article has been published in the journal: Health and History. Used with permission.
dc.subjectMental hospitalen_NZ
dc.subjectheredityen_NZ
dc.subjectraceen_NZ
dc.subjectdegeneracyen_NZ
dc.subjectimmigrationen_NZ
dc.titleHalting the 'sad degenerationist parade': medical concerns about heredity and racial degeneracy in New Zealand psychiatry, 1853-99.en_NZ
dc.typeJournal Articleen_NZ
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