Description |
xiv, 365 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-353) and index. |
Contents |
Problem families -- Sex and surgery -- The pedigree factory -- Studying sterilization -- The Mallory case -- Laughlin's book -- A Virginia sterilization law -- Choosing Carrie Buck -- Carrie Buck versus Dr. Priddy -- Defenseless -- On appeal : Buck v. Bell -- In the Supreme Court -- Reaction and repercussions -- After the Supreme Court -- Sterilizing Germans -- Skinner v. Oklahoma -- Buck, at Nuremberg and after -- Rediscovering Buck. |
Summary |
"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. |
Subject |
Buck, Carrie, 1906-1983 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
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Sterilization (Birth control) -- Law and legislation -- Virginia.
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Insanity (Law) -- Virginia.
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Buck, Carrie, 1906-1983.
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Sterilization, Involuntary -- legislation & jurisprudence -- United States.
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Eugenics -- history -- United States.
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Eugenics -- legislation & jurisprudence -- United States.
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History, 20th Century -- United States.
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Sterilization, Involuntary -- history -- United States.
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Added Title |
Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell |
ISBN |
9780801890109 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0801890101 hardcover alkaline paper |
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