A century of eugenics in America [electronic resource] : from the Indiana experiment to the human genome era / edited by Paul A. Lombardo.

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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

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computer

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online resource

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9780253004987
0253004985

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Electronic books.

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363.9/2 22

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HQ755.5.U5 .C46 2011

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Contents:

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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