Sterilized by the state : eugenics, race, and the population scare in twentieth-century North America / Randall Hansen, University of Toronto, Desmond King, Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

Author/creator Hansen, Randall
Other author King, Desmond S.
Format Book
PublicationCambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Descriptionviii, 303 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction : coerced sterilization: outcomes, theories, methods -- The eugenicists : short portraits -- Eugenic anxieties -- Homes for the feebleminded -- The eugenicists' first throw: sterilization policy before the Second World War -- Buck v. bell and beyond -- Sterilization thwarted -- Sterilization and murder in Nazi Germany -- Revival and recovery : eugenics in new clothes -- Eugenics and world population growth -- The sterilized : voices from Alberta and Oregon -- Postwar sterilization : institutions and abuse -- Welfare, African Americans, and coerced sterilization -- Those who sterilized -- Conclusion : a century of coerced sterilization.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2013015860
ISBN9781107032927
ISBN110703292X
ISBN9781107659704 (paperback)
ISBN1107659701 (paperback)

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Joyner General Stacks HQ755.5 .U5 H36 2013 ✔ Available Place Hold