Breeding contempt the history of coerced sterilization in the United States /
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
Imprint: | New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008. |
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Online Access: | Available in ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete. Available in America: History & Life with Full Text. |
Summary: | 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 theUnited 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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Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-199) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780813543802 (online) 9780813577562 (online) 9781281151421 (online) |
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