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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Medical and Surgical Reporter
Author: The Ohio Medical and Surgical Reporter
Author: The Toledo Medical and Surgical Reporter
Author: The Medical and Surgical Reporter
Author: Three Generations, No Imbeciles
Author: Paul A. LombardoPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801898811
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Winner, 2009 Georgia Author of the Year Award for Creative Nonfiction HistoryHonorable Mention, Nonfiction. Library of Virginia Literary Awards “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” Few lines from Supreme Court opinions are as memorable as this declaration by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. in the landmark 1927 case Buck v. Bell. The ruling allowed states to forcibly sterilize residents in order to prevent “feebleminded and socially inadequate” people from having children. It is the only time the Supreme Court endorsed surgery as a tool of government policy. Paul Lombardo’s startling narrative exposes the Buck case’s fraudulent roots. In 1924 Carrie Buck—involuntarily institutionalized by the State of Virginia after she was raped and impregnated—challenged the state’s plan to sterilize her. Having already judged her mother and daughter mentally deficient, Virginia wanted to make Buck the first person sterilized under a new law designed to prevent hereditarily “defective” people from reproducing. Lombardo’s more than twenty-five years of research and his own interview with Buck before she died demonstrate conclusively that she was destined to lose the case before it had even begun. Neither Carrie Buck nor her mother and daughter were the "imbeciles" condemned in the Holmes opinion. Her lawyer—a founder of the institution where she was held—never challenged Virginia’s arguments and called no witnesses on Buck’s behalf. And judges who heard her case, from state courts up to the U.S. Supreme Court, sympathized with the eugenics movement. Virginia had Carrie Buck sterilized shortly after the 1927 decision. Though Buck set the stage for more than sixty thousand involuntary sterilizations in the United States and was cited at the Nuremberg trials in defense of Nazi sterilization experiments, it has never been overturned. Three Generations, No Imbeciles tracks the notorious case through its history, revealing that it remains a potent symbol of government control of reproduction and a troubling precedent for the human genome era.
Catalogue of the Books and Pamphlets in the Medical Department of the Grosvenor Public Library, Buffalo, N.Y.
Author: Grosvenor Public Library (Buffalo, N.Y.). Medical DepartmentPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Journal of the American Medical Association
Author: American Medical AssociationPublisher:
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Category : American Medical Association
Languages : en
Pages : 1278
Book Description
Includes proceedings of the Association, papers read at the annual sessions, and list of current medical literature.
The New York Medical and Surgical Reporter
Author: Sexuality and Medicine
Author: E.E. ShelpPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400937253
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
When confronted by the concerns of human sexual function or dys function, American medicine finds itself well impaled on the horns of a dilemma. Currently it is acceptable medical practice to treat sexual dysfunctions, disorders, or dissatisfactions that arise from psy chogenic etiologies, endocrine imbalances, neurologic defects or are side effects of necessary medication regimes. In addition, implanta tion of penile prostheses in cases of organic impotence is an increas ingly popular surgical procedure. These clinical approaches to sexual inadequacies, accepted by medicine since 1970, represent one horn of the dilemma. The opposite horn pictures the medical profession firmly backed into a corner by cultural influences. For example, when hospital admissions occur, a significant portion of the routine medical history is the section on system review. A few questions are asked about the cardio-respiratory, the genito-urinary, and the gastro-intestinal sys tems. But in a preponderance of hospitals no questions are permitted or, if raised, answers are not recorded about human sexual functioning. Physicians tend to forget that they are victims of cultural imposition first and of professional training a distant second.
The British and Foreign Medical Review or Quarterly Journal of Practical Medicine and Surgery
Author: John ForbesPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385578671
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.