In Reckless Hands
Subtitle: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: July 21, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780393065299
Subjects: Legal History; United States - 20th Century; History / United States / 20th Century; History; History - U.S.; History: American
Description: In the 1920s and 1930s, thousands of men and women were sterilized at asylums and prisons across America because it was believed that criminality and mental illness were inherited. This is the disturbing, forgotten history of America's experiment with eugenics.