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  2. Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded

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    Priddy sought Carrie to be a patient of the camp as a way to showcase eugenic ideas of heredity to support Virginia's sterilization law and eventually move the law all the way up to the supreme court. [6] [1] The three generations of the Buck family and Carrie's impending sterilization became the focus of the landmark supreme court case Buck v

  3. Infection prevention and control - Wikipedia

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    The time is counted once the temperature that is needed has been reached. Steam sterilization requires four conditions in order to be efficient: adequate contact, sufficiently high temperature, correct time and sufficient moisture. [16] Sterilization using steam can also be done at a temperature of 132 C (270 F), at a double pressure. [citation ...

  4. Sexual Sterilization Act - Wikipedia

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    The Sexual Sterilization Act was a law enacted in 1928 by the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada. Supported by influential social groups, the Act was aimed to redress social problems by preventing the transmission of personality traits deemed undesirable to offspring and therefore allowed for sterilization of mentally disabled people.

  5. Sterilization (microbiology) - Wikipedia

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    This method is a faster process than dry heat sterilization. Steam sterilization is performed using an autoclave, sometimes called a converter or steam sterilizer. The object or liquid is placed in the autoclave chamber, which is then sealed and heated using pressurized steam to a temperature set point for a defined period of time.

  6. Soil steam sterilization - Wikipedia

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    The steam enters the soil from the top and the bottom at the same time. Sheets are not suitable, since a high pressure up to 30 mm water column arises underneath the cover. Sandwich steaming offers several advantages. On the one hand, application of energy can be increased to up to 120 kg steam per m 2 /h. In comparison to other steaming ...

  7. Sterilization - Wikipedia

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    Sterilization may refer to: Sterilization (microbiology), killing or inactivation of micro-organisms; Soil steam sterilization, a farming technique that sterilizes soil with steam in open fields or greenhouses; Sterilization (medicine) renders a human unable to reproduce; Neutering is the surgical sterilization of animals

  8. Compulsory sterilization - Wikipedia

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    Compulsory sterilization, also known as forced or coerced sterilization, refers to any government-mandated program to involuntarily sterilize a specific group of people. Sterilization removes a person's capacity to reproduce, and is usually done by surgical or chemical means.

  9. History of mental disorders - Wikipedia

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    Clinical psychology and social work developed as professions alongside psychiatry. Theories of eugenics led to compulsory sterilization movements in many countries around the world for several decades, often encompassing patients in public mental institutions. [73] World War I saw a massive increase of conditions that came to be termed "shell ...