A century of eugenics in America [electronic resource] : from the Indiana experiment to the human genome era / edited by Paul A. Lombardo.
Material type: TextSeries: Bioethics and the humanities | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2011. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xi, 251 p. )Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780253004987
- 0253004985
- Sterilization, Involuntary -- legislation & jurisprudence -- United States
- Sterilization, Involuntary -- history -- United States
- History, 21st Century -- United States
- History, 20th Century -- United States
- Eugenics -- legislation & jurisprudence -- United States
- Eugenics -- history -- United States
- Eugenics -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Human Genome Project
- 363.9/2 22
- HQ755.5.U5 .C46 2011
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The hoosier connection : compulsory sterilization as moral hygiene / Elof Axel Carlson -- The Indiana way of eugenics : sterilization laws, 1907-74 / Jason S. Lantzer -- From better babies to the bunglers : eugenics on tobacco road / Paul A. Lombardo -- "Quality, not mere quantity, counts" : black eugenics and the NAACP baby contests / Gregory Michael Dorr and Angela Logan -- From legislation to lived experience : eugenic sterilization in California and Indiana, 1907-79 / Alexandra Minna Stern -- Eugenics and social welfare in new deal Minnesota / Molly Ladd-Taylor -- Reassessing eugenic sterilization : the case of North Carolina / Johanna Schoen -- Protection or control? Women's health, sterilization abuse, and Relf v. Weinberger / Gregory Michael Dorr -- Are we entering a "perfect storm" for a resurgence of eugenics? Science, medicine, and their social context / Linda L. McCabe and Edward R. B. McCabe -- Modern eugenics and the law / Maxwell J. Mehlman.
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