Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
Publisher: Penguin Press
Published: 2016
Format: Ebook
ISBN-13: 9781101980835
Description: From the Introduction...

Faced with this choice, the Supreme Court did not merely side with the strong: it enthusiastically urged them on by insisting it would be “better for all the world” if society's strongest members simply finished off people like Carrie once and for all. Even the ancient Babylonians understood that helping the strong to obliterate the weak is antithetical to the purpose of law--and no way to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land.
Table of contents: title: Copyright; title: Dedication; title: Epigraph; title: Introduction; title: Carrie Buck
label: One; title: Albert Priddy
label: Two; title: Albert Priddy
label: Three; title: Harry Laughlin
label: Four; title: Harry Laughlin
label: Five; title: Aubrey Strode
label: Six; title: Aubrey Strode
label: Seven; title: Oliver Wendell Holmes
label: Eight; title: Oliver Wendell Holmes
label: Nine; title: Carrie Buck
label: Ten; title: Conclusion; title: Photographs; title: Acknowledgments; title: Notes; title: Index