Abstract
THE April number of the Eugenics Review is largely devoted to the subject of sterilisation. Major Leonard Darwin makes a detailed analysis of the report of the Departmental Committee known as the Brock Report, Dr. E. Mapother discusses the necessary safeguards in eugenic sterilisation and Prof. Hans Maier of Zurich contributes an article on practical experience of sterilisation in Switzerland, where it has been practised in certain cantons under medical supervision for more than fifty years. The legal aspects of sterilisation in Great Britain are discussed by Mr. Cecil Binney, and Dr. C. C. Hurst contributes a paper on the genetics of intellect. An account is also given of discussions in the House of Commons, and the speech of Mr. Hugh Molson, M.P., in moving that H.M. Government give immediate consideration to the recommendations made unanimously by the Committee is reproduced in full. In all cases, emphasis is laid upon the need that sterilisation should be voluntary, and with proper safeguards, as any element of compulsion defeats its own ends.
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Human Sterilisation. Nature 133, 904 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133904d0
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