Author: Human Betterment Foundation, Pasadena, Calif
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eugenics
Languages : en
Pages : 16

View

Book Description

Author: Cora Brooking Sanders Hodson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Involuntary sterilization
Languages : en
Pages : 76

View

Book Description

Author: Adam Seth Cohen
Publisher:
ISBN: 1594204187
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418

View

Book Description
One of America's great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court's infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of "undesirable" citizens the law of the land New York Times bestselling author Adam Cohen tells the story in Imbeciles of one of the darkest moments in the American legal tradition: the Supreme Court's decision to champion eugenic sterilization for the greater good of the country. In 1927, when the nation was caught up in eugenic fervor, the justices allowed Virginia to sterilize Carrie Buck, a perfectly normal young woman, for being an "imbecile." It is a story with many villains, from the superintendent of the Dickensian Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded who chose Carrie for sterilization to the former Missouri agriculture professor and Nazi sympathizer who was the nation's leading advocate for eugenic sterilization. But the most troubling actors of all were the eight Supreme Court justices who were in the majority - including William Howard Taft, the former president; Louis Brandeis, the legendary progressive; and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., America's most esteemed justice, who wrote the decision urging the nation to embark on a program of mass eugenic sterilization. Exposing this tremendous injustice--which led to the sterilization of 70,000 Americans--Imbeciles overturns cherished myths and reappraises heroic figures in its relentless pursuit of the truth. With the precision of a legal brief and the passion of a front-page exposé, Cohen's Imbeciles is an unquestionable triumph of American legal and social history, an ardent accusation against these acclaimed men and our own optimistic faith in progress.

Author: Dennis McCalib
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16

View

Book Description

Author: Ezra Seymour Gosney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminals
Languages : en
Pages : 232

View

Book Description

Author: Jacob Henry Landman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Involuntary sterilization
Languages : en
Pages : 370

View

Book Description

Author: Paul A. Lombardo
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253222699
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268

View

Book Description
This volume 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.

Author: Jonas B. Robitscher
Publisher: Charles C. Thomas Publisher
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 168

View

Book Description

Author: Ian Robert Dowbiggin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195188586
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 281

View

Book Description
Many would be surprised to learn that the preferred method of birth control in the United States today is actually surgical sterilization. This book takes an historical look at the sterilization movement in post-World War II America, a revolution in modern contraceptive behavior. Focusing on leaders of the sterilization movement from the 1930's through the turn of the century, this book explores the historic linkages between environment, civil liberties, eugenics, population control, sex education, marriage counseling, and birth control movements in the 20th-century United States. Sterilization has been variously advocated as a medical procedure for defusing the "population bomb," expanding individual rights, liberating women from the fear of pregnancy, strengthening marriage, improving the quality of life of the mentally disabled, or reducing the incidence of hereditary disorders. From an historical standpoint, support for free and unfettered access to sterilization services has aroused opposition in some circles, and was considered a "liberal cause" in post-World War II America. This story demonstrates how a small group of reformers helped to alter traditional notions of gender and sexuality.

Author: Randall Hansen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110703292X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313

View

Book Description
This book shows how eugenic sterilization policies were maintained after the 1940s in the United States and Canada despite the discrediting of such theories by comparable Nazi Germany policies. It focuses on the individual experience of victims of sterilization, the doctors concerned, and the mental health institutions that protected the system.