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Author:

Lombardo, Paul A.

Title:

Three generations, no imbeciles : eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell / Paul A. Lombardo.

Edition:

John Hopkins pbk. ed.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xiv, 365 p. ill., ports., facsims., form 23 cm.

Subject:

Buck, Carrie,--1906-1983--Trials, litigation, etc.
Buck, Carrie,--1906-1983.
Sterilization (Birth control)--Law and legislation--Virginia.
Insanity (Law)--Virginia.
Involuntary sterilization--Law and legislation--United States.
Eugenics--United States--History.
Involuntary sterilization--United States--History.

Other Authors:

UI Women in Science and Engineering donor IaU

Notes:

Originally published: 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-356) and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Prologue : the expert witness -- Problem families -- Sex and surgery -- The pedigree factory -- Studying sterilization -- The Mallory case -- Laughlin's book -- A Virginia sterilization law --
Choosing Carrie Buck -- Carrie Buck versus Dr. Priddy -- Defenseless -- On appeal : Buck v. Bell -- In the Supreme Court -- Reactions and repercussions -- After the Supreme Court -- Sterilizing Germans -- Skinner v. Oklahoma --
Buck, at Nuremberg and after -- Rediscovering Buck -- Epilogue : Rediscovering Buck.

ISBN:

0801898242 (pbk.)
9780801898242 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)646397390

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)