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unusual facts about Sterilization


Sterilization

Soil steam sterilization, a farming technique that sterilizes soil with steam in open fields or greenhouses


Ana María García

She is best known for the short documentary La Operación (1982) a film which focuses on US-imposed sterilization policies in Puerto Rico.

Asepsis

Ernst von Bergmann introduced the autoclave, a device used for the practice of the sterilization of surgical instruments.

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Horst Schumann — His experimental subjects were healthy men and women in their late teens or early twenties, on whom he attempted X-ray sterilization.

Canadian Mental Health Association

Results of these surveys, however, have had controversial implications, including how they were used to argue for pro-sterilization policies by the Alberta Eugenics Board and in the form of the Sexual Sterilization Act of Alberta.

Gas diffusion method

The gas diffusion sterilization is a proprietary method developed by Andersen Products in 1958 and subsequently used by the Anprolene (EPA registered in 1968) and EOGas sterilizers.

Imbecile

and was used in 1927 by United States Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in his ruling in the forced-sterilization case Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927).

Karl Brandt

The charges against him included special responsibility for, and participation in, Freezing, Malaria, LOST Gas, Sulfanilamide, Bone, Muscle and Nerve Regeneration and Bone Transplantation, Sea-Water, Epidemic Jaundice, Sterilization, and Typhus Experiments.

Michelson Prize and Grants in Reproductive Biology

To aid scientists in pursuing this goal, the Michelson Grants are available in quantities of approximately $250,000 per year per grant, totaling up to $50 million, for research pursuing innovative approaches to non-surgical sterilization technology for companion animals.

Pathfinder International

The founder, Clarence Gamble, was a member of Human Betterment League of North Carolina and advocated forced sterilization of mental patients.

Rats in New York City

In 2013, it was announced that New York municipal authorities would implement a plan for mass sterilization of the city's rats, using a chemical to neutralize the reproductive systems of female rats.


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