Sterilized by the state : eugenics, race, and the population scare in twentieth-century North America /
Hansen, Randall,author.
King, Desmond S.,author.
Introduction : coerced sterilization: outcomes, theories, methods -- The eugenicists : short portraits -- Eugenic anxieties -- Homes for the feebleminded -- The eugenicists' first throw: sterilization policy 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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Eugenics
Eugenics
Sterilization (Birth control)
Sterilization (Birth control)