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Language: en
Pages: 268
Pages: 268
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-01-06 - Publisher: Indiana University Press
This volume assesses the history of eugenics in the United States and its status in the age of the Human Genome Project. The essays explore the early support of
Language: en
Pages: 313
Pages: 313
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
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher:
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: 607
Pages: 607
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-09-24 - Publisher: OUP USA
Philippa Levine is the Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin. Her books include Prostitution, Race and
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