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Author Stern, Alexandra.

Title Eugenic nation : faults and frontiers of better breeding in modern America / Alexandra Minna Stern.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2005]
©2005

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Location Call No. Status
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  363.92 S839E    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 347 pages : illustrations 24 cm.
Series American crossroads ; 17
American crossroads ; 17.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-322) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Race betterment and tropical medicine in imperial San Francisco -- Quarantine and eugenic gate-keeping on the U.S-Mexico border -- Instituting eugenics in California -- California's eugenic landscapes -- Centering eugenics on the family -- Contesting hereditarianism.
Subject Eugenics -- United States -- History.
Eugenics -- California -- History.
Eugenics -- history -- California.
Eugenics -- history -- United States.
History, 20th Century -- California.
History, 20th Century -- United States.
Sterilization -- history -- California.
Sterilization -- history -- United States.
Vulnerable Populations -- California.
Vulnerable Populations -- United States.
ISBN 0520244435 cloth alkaline paper
0520244443 paperback alkaline paper
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