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A century of eugenics in America : from the Indiana experiment to the human genome era /
In 1907, Indiana passed the world's first involuntary sterilization law based on the theory of eugenics. In time, more than 30 states and a dozen foreign countries followed suit. Although the Indiana statute was later declared unconstitutional, other laws restricting immigration and regulating...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Bioethics and the humanities.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The hoosier connection : compulsory sterilization as moral hygiene / Elof Axel Carlson
- The Indiana way of eugenics : sterilization laws, 1907-74 / Jason S. Lantzer
- From better babies to the bunglers : eugenics on tobacco road / Paul A. Lombardo
- "Quality, not mere quantity, counts" : black eugenics and the NAACP baby contests / Gregory Michael Dorr and Angela Logan
- From legislation to lived experience : eugenic sterilization in California and Indiana, 1907-79 / Alexandra Minna Stern
- Eugenics and social welfare in new deal Minnesota / Molly Ladd-Taylor
- Reassessing eugenic sterilization : the case of North Carolina / Johanna Schoen
- Protection or control? Women's health, sterilization abuse, and Relf v. Weinberger / Gregory Michael Dorr
- Are we entering a "perfect storm" for a resurgence of eugenics? Science, medicine, and their social context / Linda L. McCabe and Edward R.B. McCabe
- Modern eugenics and the law / Maxwell J. Mehlman.