Dr. Isaac Kerlin addresses the Association of Medical Officers of American Institution for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Persons

1892. Dr. Isaac Kerlin's presidential address to the Association of Medical Officers of American Institutions for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Persons speaks of "surgery for the relief of idiotic conditions," in which he asks the audience: "Whose state shall be the first to legitimize oophorectomy and orchitomia for the relief and cure of radical depravity?"

-Amy Dyrbye

  • Kevles, D. (1985). In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Dr. Isaac Kerlin addresses the Association of Medical Officers of American Institution for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Persons

1892. Dr. Isaac Kerlin's presidential address to the Association of Medical Officers of American Institutions for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Persons speaks of "surgery for the relief of idiotic conditions," in which he asks the audience: "Whose state shall be the first to legitimize oophorectomy and orchitomia for the relief and cure of radical depravity?"

-Amy Dyrbye

  • Kevles, D. (1985). In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity. Berkeley: University of California Press.