Sterilized by the state : eugenics, race, and the population scare in twentieth-century North / America / Randall Hansen, University of Toronto, Desmond King, Nuffield College, University of Oxford.
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Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
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2013.
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Physical Description: | viii, 303 pages |
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Contents:
- Introduction : coerced sterilization: outcomes, theories, methods
- The eugenicists : short portraits
- Eugenic anxieties
- Homes for the feebleminded
- The eugenicists' first throw: sterilization before the Second World War
- Buck v. bell and beyond
- Sterilization thwarted
- Sterilization and murder in Nazi Germany
- Revival and recovery : eugenics in new clothes
- Eugenics and world population growth
- The sterilized : voices from Alberta and Oregon
- Postwar sterilization : institutions and abuse
- Welfare, African Americans, and coerced sterilization
- Those who sterilized
- Conclusion : a century of coerced sterilization.