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Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-01-06 - Publisher: Indiana University Press
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-08-26 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This book shows how eugenic sterilization policies were maintained after the 1940s in the United States and Canada despite the discrediting of such theories by
Language: en
Pages: 418
Pages: 418
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One of America's great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court's infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of "undesirable" citizens th
Language: en
Pages: 332
Pages: 332
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Traces the history of eugenics ideology in the United States and its ongoing presence in contemporary life. The Nazis may have given eugenics its negative conno
Language: en
Pages: 422
Pages: 422
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Univ of California Press
"With an emphasis on the American West, Eugenic Nation explores the long and unsettled history of eugenics in the United States. This expanded second edition in