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Sterilized by the state : eugenics, race, and the population scare in twentieth-century North America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hansen, Randall
Other Authors: King, Desmond S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Eugenics > United States > History > 20th century.
Eugenics > Canada > History > 20th century.
Sterilization (Birth control) > United States > History > 20th century.
Sterilization (Birth control) > Canada > History > 20th century.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : coerced sterilization: outcomes, theories, methods
  • The eugenicists : short portraits
  • Eugenic anxieties
  • Homes for the feebleminded
  • The eugenicists' first throw: sterilization before the Second World War
  • Buck v. bell and beyond
  • Sterilization thwarted
  • Sterilization and murder in Nazi Germany
  • Revival and recovery : eugenics in new clothes
  • Eugenics and world population growth
  • The sterilized : voices from Alberta and Oregon
  • Postwar sterilization : institutions and abuse
  • Welfare, African Americans, and coerced sterilization
  • Those who sterilized
  • Conclusion : a century of coerced sterilization.