Eugenical Sterilization: 1926
Author : Harry Hamilton Laughlin
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Page : 90 pages
File Size : 15,80 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Eugenics
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Author : Harry Hamilton Laughlin
Publisher :
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 15,80 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Eugenics
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Author : Harry H. Laughlin
Publisher :
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 38,19 MB
Release : 1926
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Author : Harry Hamilton Laughlin
Publisher :
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 16,38 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Crime
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Author : American Eugenics Society
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Page : 44 pages
File Size : 30,25 MB
Release : 1926
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Author : Harry Hamilton Laughlin
Publisher :
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 13,26 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Electronic books
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Author : Adam Seth Cohen
Publisher :
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 32,72 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 1594204187
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 : Harry Hamilton Laughlin
Publisher :
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 24,27 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Eugenics
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Author : Alison Bashford
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 45,81 MB
Release : 2010-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0195373146
Philippa Levine is the Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin. Her books include Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire, and The British Empire, Sunrise to Sunset. --
Author : American Neurological Association. Committee for the Investigation of Eugenical Sterilization
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Page : 232 pages
File Size : 16,62 MB
Release : 1936
Category : Eugenics
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Page : 380 pages
File Size : 29,88 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Eugenics
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