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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe PARIS The scandal broke last week following the publication of a series of articles in the Swedish newspaper _Dagens Nyheter_. Until then,
few Swedes knew anything about the sterilization programme, even though its existence had hardly been a state secret. During the 1970s a parliamentary commission debated the 1934 law
authorizing the sterilizations. The impact of the law, which was abolished in 1976, has also been widely debated in academic circles recently. This is a preview of subscription content,
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