Breeding Contempt : The History of Coerced Sterilization in the United States.
Most closely associated with the Nazis and World War II atrocities, eugenics is sometimes described as a government-orchestrated breeding program, other times as a pseudo-science, and often as the first step leading to genocide. Less frequently it is recognized as a movement having links to the Uni...
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Other Authors / Creators: | Largent, Mark. |
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Language: | English |
Imprint: | New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2007. |
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505 | 0 | |a Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: In the Name of Progress -- Chapter 1: Nipping the Problem in the Bud -- Chapter 2:Eugenics and the Professionalization of American Biology -- Chapter 3: The Legislative Solution -- Chapter 4: Buck v. Belland the First Organized Resistance to Coerced Sterilization -- Chapter 5:The Professions Retreat -- Conclusion:The New Coerced Sterilization Movement -- Appendix: Bibliography of Twentieth-Century American Biology Textbooks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author. | |
520 | |a Most closely associated with the Nazis and World War II atrocities, eugenics is sometimes described as a government-orchestrated breeding program, other times as a pseudo-science, and often as the first step leading to genocide. Less frequently it is recognized as a movement having links to the United States. But eugenics does have a history in this country, and Mark A. Largent tells that story by exploring one of its most disturbing aspects, the compulsory sterilization of more than 64,000 Americans. | ||
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