Aotearoa's Eugenics Movement

This episode is dedicated to the memory of Maya.

A century ago our mental health system was fixated on eugenics and protecting the ‘white race’. So to understand everything playing out Doctors Hilary Stace and Hamish Spencer take us through the subject. This one is heavy and I won’t judge if you don’t listen but I made this because we can’t forget what’s been done.

Sources:

Eugenics at the Edge of the Empire – Edited by Diane Paul, Hamish Spencer, and John Stenhouse.

New Zealand Between the Wars - Edited by Rachael Bell

Shell Shock and the Politics of Asylum Committal in New Zealand, 1916-22 - John Weaver and David Wright

WW100

The Dark, Unknown Story of Eugenics in New Zealand – Tess McClure

Mental health impact a legacy of WWI? – Glyn Harper

Flashback: NZ almost legalises eugenic sterilisation - Will Harvie

Plunket takes on its history, and future, to be 'a better Treaty partner' - Cate Broughton

Massey racism provokes call for university name change - Karoline Tuckey

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