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. |
Format: | eBook Electronic |
Language: | English |
Imprint: | New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2007. |
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Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.