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Breeding contempt : the history of coerced sterilization in the United States /

Main Author: Largent, Mark A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
Involuntary sterilization > History. > United States
Eugenics > History. > United States
Sterilization, Involuntary > history.
Eugenics > history.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
HISTORY > 19th Century. > United States
Eugenics.
United States.
Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=217812
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505 0 |a Introduction : in the name of progress -- 1. Nipping the problem in the bud -- 2. Eugenics and the professionalization of American biology -- 3. The legislative solution -- 4. Buck v. Bell and the first organized resistance to coerced sterilization -- 5. The professions retreat -- Conclusion : the new coerced sterilization movement -- Appendix. Bibliography of twentieth-century American biology textbooks. 
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