Framing "defectives," affirming science : critical archival research on eugenic field worker case files /

Under the aegis of eugenics-the science of better human breeding-California coercively sterilized 20,000 people, nearly one-third of the 60,000 sterilized across the United States, from 1909 to 1979. Key to that process were the sociomedical case histories carried out by a nearly all-female cohort o...

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