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Author Hansen, Randall.

Title Sterilized by the state : eugenics, race, and the population scare in twentieth-century North America / Randall Hansen, University of Toronto, Desmond King, Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

Publication Info. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  363.92 H249S    Check Shelf
Description viii, 303 pages ; 23 cm
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject 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.
Added Author King, Desmond S.
ISBN 9781107032927
110703292X
9781107659704 paperback
1107659701 paperback
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