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1 online resource (x, 213 pages) : illustrations |
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Introduction : in the name of progress -- 1. Nipping the problem in the bud -- 2. Eugenics and the professionalization of American biology -- 3. The legislative solution -- 4. Buck v. Bell and the first organized resistance to coerced sterilization -- 5. The professions retreat -- Conclusion : the new coerced sterilization movement -- Appendix. Bibliography of twentieth-century American biology textbooks |
| Summary |
Widespread sterilization programs are most closely associated with the Nazis and World War II atrocities. Less frequently are they recognized as efforts that were undertaken by American lawmakers, scientists, and health care providers. Mark A. Largent explores the history of compulsory sterilization in the United States by examining the assumptions and motivations that led to the coerced sterilization of tens of thousands of Americans during the twentieth century. The book begins in the mid-nineteenth century, when American medical doctors began advocating the sterilization of citizens they de |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-199) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Involuntary sterilization -- United States -- History
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Eugenics -- United States -- History
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Sterilization, Involuntary -- history
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Eugenics -- history
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
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Eugenics
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Involuntary sterilization
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Eugenik
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Zwangssterilisation
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United States |
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United States
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2007000029 |
| ISBN |
9780813543802 |
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0813543800 |
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1281151424 |
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9781281151421 |
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9786611151423 |
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6611151427 |
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