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Fixing the Poor : Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century /

Between 1907 and 1937, thirty-two states legalized the sterilization of more than 63,000 Americans. In Fixing the Poor, Molly Ladd-Taylor tells the story of these state-run eugenic sterilization programs. She focuses on one such program in Minnesota, where surgical sterilization was legally voluntar...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ladd-Taylor, Molly, 1955- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The feebleminded menace and the innocent child
  • Two roads to sterilization
  • Who was feebleminded?
  • The price of freedom
  • Sterilization and welfare in depression and war
  • From fixing the poor to fixing the system?