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.
Lunatics, Imbeciles and Idiots
Lunatics, Imbeciles and Idiots - 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 Lunatics, Imbeciles and Idiots write by Kathryn Burtinshaw. This book was released on 2017-04-30. Lunatics, Imbeciles and Idiots available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Reveals the grisly conditions in which the mentally ill were kept . . . [and] harrowing details of the inhumane and gruesome treatment of these patients.”—Daily Mail In the first half of the nineteenth century, treatment of the mentally ill in Britain and Ireland underwent radical change. No longer manacled, chained and treated like wild animals, patient care was defined in law and medical understanding, and treatment of insanity developed. Focusing on selected cases, this new study enables the reader to understand how progressively advancing attitudes and expectations affected decisions, leading to better legislation and medical practice throughout the century. Specific mental health conditions are discussed in detail and the treatments patients received are analyzed in an expert way. A clear view of why institutional asylums were established, their ethos for the treatment of patients, and how they were run as palaces rather than prisons giving moral therapy to those affected becomes apparent. The changing ways in which patients were treated, and altered societal views to the incarceration of the mentally ill, are explored. The book is thoroughly illustrated and contains images of patients and asylum staff never previously published, as well as first-hand accounts of life in a nineteenth-century asylum from a patient’s perspective. Written for genealogists as well as historians, this book contains clear information concerning access to asylum records and other relevant primary sources and how to interpret their contents in a meaningful way. “Through the use of case studies, this book adds a personal note to the historiography in a way that is often missing from scholarly works.”—Federation of Family History Societies
Idiots, Imbeciles and Morons
Idiots, Imbeciles and Morons - 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 Idiots, Imbeciles and Morons write by John Karrer. This book was released on 2000-12-20. Idiots, Imbeciles and Morons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “I’ll be my own testament to the mountains of fudge I’ve moved, the rivers of chocolate I’ve forded, the forests of candy I’ve cleared and the cities of pie I’ve vanquished.” So muses our hero ReJean Zartro, Social Worker Un-extraordinaire, as he beats himself like a big palooka on a cold dawn in Brooklyn, battles donut-scarfing administrators and his nefarious supervisor Paula Perfecto, the evil nurse Cyclops, Parrot Boys under the nom de plume of Schaffer Van Vliet in Istanbul, dukes it out with Senor Eduardo Freeform Funkified, converses with a dead colleague, and struggles to stay afloat with his caseload of 230 mentally retarded adults at CRUDDI’s Gulag Day Treatment Center in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. (And you thought you were having a crappy week.)
Illiberal Reformers
Illiberal Reformers - 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 Illiberal Reformers write by Thomas C. Leonard. This book was released on 2017-01-24. Illiberal Reformers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and reform agenda underwrote the Progressive Era dismantling of laissez-faire and the creation of the regulatory welfare state, which, they believed, would humanize and rationalize industrial capitalism. But not for all. Academic social scientists such as Richard T. Ely, John R. Commons, and Edward A. Ross, together with their reform allies in social work, charity, journalism, and law, played a pivotal role in establishing minimum-wage and maximum-hours laws, workmen's compensation, progressive income taxes, antitrust regulation, and other hallmarks of the regulatory welfare state. But even as they offered uplift to some, economic progressives advocated exclusion for others, and did both in the name of progress. Leonard meticulously reconstructs the influence of Darwinism, racial science, and eugenics on scholars and activists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, revealing a reform community deeply ambivalent about America's poor. Economic progressives championed labor legislation because it would lift up the deserving poor while excluding immigrants, African Americans, women, and 'mental defectives, ' whom they vilified as low-wage threats to the American workingman and to Anglo-Saxon race integrity. Economic progressives rejected property and contract rights as illegitimate barriers to needed reforms. But their disregard for civil liberties extended much further. Illiberal Reformers shows that the intellectual champions of the regulatory welfare state proposed using it not to help those they portrayed as hereditary inferiors, but to exclude them. -- Provided by publisher.
Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile
Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile - 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 Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile write by Alice Jolly. This book was released on 2018-06-14. Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2019 Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2019 2019 Walter Scott Prize Academy recommendation If you tell a story oft enough So it become true As the nineteenth century draws towards a close, Mary Ann Sate, an elderly maidservant, sets out to write her truth. She writes of the Valleys that she loves, of the poisonous rivalry between her employer's two sons and of a terrible choice which tore her world apart. Her haunting and poignant story brings to life a period of strife and rapid social change, and evokes the struggles of those who lived in poverty and have been forgotten by history. In this fictional found memoir, novelist Alice Jolly uses the astonishing voice of Mary Ann to recreate history as seen from a woman's perspective and to give joyful, poetic voice to the silenced women of the past.
