Breeding Contempt : The History of Coerced Sterilization in the United States /

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From the Publisher: Most closely associated today with the Nazis and World War II atrocities, eugenics is sometimes described as a government-orchestrated breeding program, other times as a pseudo-science, and often as the first step leading to genocide. Less frequently is it depicted as a movement...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Largent, Mark A.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2008.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Zwangssterilisation
Eugenik
Involuntary sterilization.
Eugenics.
Eugenisme > États-Unis > Histoire.
Sterilisation eugenique > États-Unis > Histoire.
Eugenics > history
Sterilization, Involuntary > history
Eugenics > United States > History.
Involuntary sterilization > United States > History.
USA
United States.
United States
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: In the name of progress
  • 1: Nipping the problem in the bud
  • 2: Eugenics and the professionalisation of American biology
  • 3: Legislative solution
  • 4: Buck v Bell and the first organized resistance to coerced sterilization
  • 5: Professions retreat
  • Conclusion: The new coerced sterilization movement
  • Appendix: Bibliography of twentieth-century American biology textbooks
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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