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

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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Ladd-Taylor, Molly, 1955- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Zwangssterilisation
Geistige Behinderung
Fürsorge
Eugenik
Sterilization (Birth control)
Poor > Government policy.
Mentally ill > Government policy.
Involuntary sterilization.
Eugenics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
Medecine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Pauvres > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis > 20e siecle.
Personnes vivant avec un trouble de sante mentale > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis > 20e siecle.
Eugenisme > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Sterilisation (Regulation des naissances) > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Sterilisation eugenique > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Persons with Mental Disabilities > history
Intellectual Disability > history
Eugenics > history
Vulnerable Populations
Human Rights Abuses > history
History, 20th Century
Sterilization, Involuntary > history
Poor > Government policy > United States > 20th century.
Mentally ill > Government policy > United States > 20th century.
Eugenics > United States > History > 20th century.
Sterilization (Birth control) > United States > History > 20th century.
Involuntary sterilization > United States > History > 20th century.
USA.
United States.
Minnesota
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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?

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