A Century of Eugenics in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Century of Eugenics in America write by Paul A. Lombardo. This book was released on 2011-01-06. A Century of Eugenics in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 compulsory sterilization by doctors and legislators.
Imbeciles
Imbeciles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imbeciles write by Adam Seth Cohen. This book was released on 2016. Imbeciles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of America's great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court's infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of "undesirable" citizens the law of the land New York Times bestselling author Adam Cohen tells the story in Imbeciles of one of the darkest moments in the American legal tradition: the Supreme Court's decision to champion eugenic sterilization for the greater good of the country. In 1927, when the nation was caught up in eugenic fervor, the justices allowed Virginia to sterilize Carrie Buck, a perfectly normal young woman, for being an "imbecile." It is a story with many villains, from the superintendent of the Dickensian Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded who chose Carrie for sterilization to the former Missouri agriculture professor and Nazi sympathizer who was the nation's leading advocate for eugenic sterilization. But the most troubling actors of all were the eight Supreme Court justices who were in the majority - including William Howard Taft, the former president; Louis Brandeis, the legendary progressive; and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., America's most esteemed justice, who wrote the decision urging the nation to embark on a program of mass eugenic sterilization. Exposing this tremendous injustice--which led to the sterilization of 70,000 Americans--Imbeciles overturns cherished myths and reappraises heroic figures in its relentless pursuit of the truth. With the precision of a legal brief and the passion of a front-page exposé, Cohen's Imbeciles is an unquestionable triumph of American legal and social history, an ardent accusation against these acclaimed men and our own optimistic faith in progress.
Sterilized by the State
Sterilized by the State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sterilized by the State write by Randall Hansen. This book was released on 2013-08-26. Sterilized by the State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 comparable Nazi Germany policies. It focuses on the individual experience of victims of sterilization, the doctors concerned, and the mental health institutions that protected the system.
Pure America
Pure America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pure America write by Elizabeth Catte. This book was released on 2022-01-16. Pure America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The highly anticipated follow-up to What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia explores the legacy of white supremacy in a small Virginia town
Eugenic Nation
Eugenic Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eugenic Nation write by Alexandra Minna Stern. This book was released on 2016. Eugenic Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "With an emphasis on the American West, Eugenic Nation explores the long and unsettled history of eugenics in the United States. This expanded second edition includes shocking details that demonstrate that the story is far from over. Alexandra Minna Stern explores the unauthorized sterilization of female inmates in California state prisons and ongoing reparations for North Carolina victims of sterilization, as well as the topics of race-based intelligence tests, school segregation, the U.S. Border Patrol, tropical medicine, the environmental movement, and opposition to better breeding. Radically new and relevant, this edition draws from recently uncovered historical records to demonstrate patterns of racial bias in California's sterilization program and to recover personal experiences of reproductive injustice. Stern connects the eugenic past to the genomic present with attention to the ethical and social implications of emerging genetic technologies"--Provided by publisher.
