Sterilization of those with intellectual disability: Evolution from non-consensual interventions to strict safeguards.

Authors: Rowlands, S. and Amy, J.-J.

Journal: J Intellect Disabil

Volume: 23

Issue: 2

Pages: 233-249

eISSN: 1744-6309

DOI: 10.1177/1744629517747162

Abstract:

Non-consensual sterilization is one of the characteristic historical abuses that took place mainly in the first half of the 20th century. People with intellectual disability (ID) were a prime target as part of the ideology of negative eugenics. In certain jurisdictions, laws were in force for several decades that permitted sterilization without the need for consent or with consent from third parties. The long-term adverse effects on those sterilized against their will have only more recently been recognized. In the latter half of the 20th century, human rights treaties were introduced and developed; they have, in the main, curbed sterilization abuses. Courts have developed more stringent criteria for making decisions on applications for sterilization, and nowadays there are mostly adequate safeguards in place to protect those with ID from non-consensual sterilization. The only exception should be the particular case in which, all medical and social factors having been taken into account, sterilization is overwhelmingly thought to be the right decision for the individual unable to give consent.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/30111/

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Sterilization of those with intellectual disability: Evolution from non-consensual interventions to strict safeguards

Authors: Rowlands, S. and Amy, J.-J.

Journal: JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES

Volume: 23

Issue: 2

Pages: 233-249

eISSN: 1744-6309

ISSN: 1744-6295

DOI: 10.1177/1744629517747162

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/30111/

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Sterilization of those with intellectual disability: Evolution from non-consensual interventions to strict safeguards

Authors: Rowlands, S. and Amy, J.J.

Journal: Journal of intellectual disabilities

Publisher: SAGE Publications

ISSN: 1744-6295

DOI: 10.1177/1744629517747162

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/30111/

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Sterilization of those with intellectual disability: Evolution from non-consensual interventions to strict safeguards.

Authors: Rowlands, S. and Amy, J.-J.

Journal: Journal of intellectual disabilities : JOID

Volume: 23

Issue: 2

Pages: 233-249

eISSN: 1744-6309

ISSN: 1744-6295

DOI: 10.1177/1744629517747162

Abstract:

Non-consensual sterilization is one of the characteristic historical abuses that took place mainly in the first half of the 20th century. People with intellectual disability (ID) were a prime target as part of the ideology of negative eugenics. In certain jurisdictions, laws were in force for several decades that permitted sterilization without the need for consent or with consent from third parties. The long-term adverse effects on those sterilized against their will have only more recently been recognized. In the latter half of the 20th century, human rights treaties were introduced and developed; they have, in the main, curbed sterilization abuses. Courts have developed more stringent criteria for making decisions on applications for sterilization, and nowadays there are mostly adequate safeguards in place to protect those with ID from non-consensual sterilization. The only exception should be the particular case in which, all medical and social factors having been taken into account, sterilization is overwhelmingly thought to be the right decision for the individual unable to give consent.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/30111/

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Sterilization of those with intellectual disability: Evolution from non-consensual interventions to strict safeguards

Authors: Rowlands, S. and Amy, J.J.

Journal: Journal of intellectual disabilities

Volume: 23

Issue: 2

Pages: 233-249

ISSN: 1744-6295

Abstract:

Non-consensual sterilisation is one of the characteristic historical abuses that took place mainly in the first half of the 20th-century. People with intellectual disability were a prime target as part of the ideology of negative eugenics. In certain jurisdictions, laws were in force for several decades that permitted sterilisation without the need for consent, or with consent from third parties. The long-term adverse effects on those sterilised against their will have only more recently been recognised. In the latter half of the 20th-century, human rights treaties were introduced and developed; they have in the main curbed sterilisation abuses. Courts have developed more stringent criteria for making decisions on applications for sterilisation and nowadays there are mostly adequate safeguards in place to protect those with intellectual disability from non-consensual sterilisation, except when it is overwhelmingly the right decision for an individual, taking into account all the medical and social factors of a particular case.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/30111/

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