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.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013Description: viii, 303 p. ; 23 cmISBN: - 9781107032927
- 9781107659704 (paperback)
- Eugenics -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Eugenics -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
- Sterilization (Birth control) -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Sterilization (Birth control) -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
- Eugenesia -- Estados Unidos -- Historia -- Siglo 20
- Eugenesia -- Canada -- Historia -- siglo 20
- Esterilización (control de la natalidad) -- Estados Unidos -- Historia -- siglo 20
- 305.800973
- HQ 755.5 H249s 2013
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Introduction : coerced sterilization: outcomes, theories, methods -- The eugenicists : short portraits -- Eugenic anxieties -- Homes for the feebleminded -- The eugenicists' first throw: sterilization 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.
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