Demographic Patterns of Eugenic Sterilization in Three U.S. States: Mixed Methods Investigation of Reproductive Control of the 'Unfit'
Institution: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
FOA Number: PA-17-444
Abstract
PROJECT NARRATIVE We will undertake epidemiological, historical and mixed-methods analysis of nearly 30,000 eugenic sterilization requests processed by three U.S. states: California, North Carolina, and Iowa, between 1919 and 1974. Working with de-identified datasets and using methods we developed during the R21 phase of this project, we will estimate and compare population-based rates of sterilization according to gender, age, ethnicity, nationality, diagnosis, state, and time period. We will deepen and extend this analysis by conducting qualitative analysis of information on patient and institutional records, integrating quantitative and qualitative analysis to generate a richer understanding of the experiences of 30,000 people sterilized during the eugenics era.
FUNDING AGENCY:
Funder:
NIH
Institute:
NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Funding Type:
R01
Project Number:
R01HG010567
Start Date:
Sep 21, 2018
End Date:
Jun 30, 2021
PROJECT TERMS:
Age, Archives, Attitude, base, Belief, Bioethics Consultants, California, Categories, Censuses, Code, Conceptions, Consent, Consent Forms, Data, Data Analyses, Data Set, deprivation, design, Diagnosis, disability, disorder prevention, Ensure, Epidemiologist, Epidemiology, ethical legal social implication, Ethics, Ethnic Origin, Eugenics, experience, Family, Family history of, Gender, General Practitioners, Genetic, Genetic Determinism, genetic discrimination, genetic variant, Genomics, Geographic state, girls, Home environment, Human, Human Genetics, human genomics, Humanities, Indiana, Individual, innovation, Intellectual functioning disability, interdisciplinary collaboration, interest, Intervention, Investigation, Iowa, Knowledge, large datasets, Latina, Laws, Legal, Link, Methodology, Methods, Nationalities, Normalcy, North Carolina, Parents, Patients, Pattern, Persons, Phase, Play, Policies, Population, population based, Process, programs, Psychiatric Diagnosis, Qualitative Research, Race, racial and ethnic, Recording of previous events, Records, Reporting, Reproduction, reproductive, Reproductive Health, residence, Sex Behavior, social, Specialist, State Hospitals, Stereotyping, Sterilization, Time, United States, Variant, Woman, Work