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A century of eugenics in America : from the Indiana experiment to the human genome era / edited by Paul A. Lombardo.
- Title
- A century of eugenics in America : from the Indiana experiment to the human genome era / edited by Paul A. Lombardo.
- Publication
- Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2010.
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- Additional Authors
- Lombardo, Paul A.
- Description
- xi, 251p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- In 1907, Indiana passed the world's first involuntary sterilization law based on the theory of eugenics. In time, more than 30 states and a dozen foreign countries followed suit. Although the Indiana statute was later declared unconstitutional, other laws restricting immigration and regulating marriage on "eugenic" grounds were still in effect in the U.S. as late as the 1970s. A Century of Eugenics in America assesses the history of eugenics in the United States and its status in the age of the Human Genome Project. The essays explore the early support of compulsory sterilization by doctors and legislators; the implementation of eugenic schemes in Indiana, Georgia, California, Minnesota, North Carolina, and Alabama; the legal and social challenges to sterilization; and the prospects for a eugenics movement basing its claims on modern genetic science.
- Series Statement
- Bioethics and the humanities
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books.
- Bioethics and the humanities.
- Subjects
- Eugenics
- Sterilization, Involuntary
- 1900-1999
- History
- Eugenics > United States > History > 20th century
- Human Genome Project
- United States
- Eugenics > history
- Eugenics > legislation & jurisprudence
- History, 20th Century
- History, 21st Century
- Sterilization, Involuntary > history
- Sterilization, Involuntary > legislation & jurisprudence
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780253355744 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780253222695 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2010020427
- OCLC
- 526083952
- SCSB-10555303
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library