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CATEGORIES:Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
SUMMARY:Eugenic sterilization in California: from demograp
 hic analysis to digital storytelling - Alexandra M
 inna Stern (University of Michigan)
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20161124T153000
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URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/67468
DESCRIPTION:From 1909 to 1979\, California sterilized more tha
 n 20\,000 patients in state homes and hospitals. T
 his lecture draws from new interdisciplinary resea
 rch into the history of sterilization\, presenting
  both overarching demographic trends that illustra
 te the intersectional racial\, gender\, and diagno
 stic biases of compulsory reproductive surgery\, a
 nd the experiences of people whose lives were irre
 vocably changed by this medical intervention. Thes
 e new findings are drawn from a dataset that I and
  my team created after digitizing more than 50\,00
 0 microfilm documents that had been long forgotten
  in the file cabinets of state agencies in Sacrame
 nto\, California. This lecture asks how an in-dept
 h interdisciplinary study of patterns and experien
 ces of sterilization confirms and challenges histo
 rical understandings of eugenics\, and highlights 
 the value of epidemiological and demographic metho
 ds in historical analysis. The presentation also p
 rovides an overview of the digital archive we are 
 creating that will feature data visualization and 
 digital storytelling.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philoso
 phy of Science
CONTACT:Nick Hopwood
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