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Title:

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

Publisher:

Indiana University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xi, 251 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Eugenics--United States--History--20th century.
Human Genome Project.
Eugenics--history--United States.
Eugenics--legislation & jurisprudence--United States.
History, 20th Century--United States.
History, 21st Century--United States.
Sterilization, Involuntary--history--United States.
Sterilization, Involuntary--legislation & jurisprudence--United States.

Other Authors:

Lombardo, Paul A.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Series:

Bioethics and the humanities

ISBN:

0253222699 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780253222695 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0253355745 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780253355744 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)526083952

LCCN:

2010020427

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)