Eugenic Nation
Subtitle: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America (American Crossroads)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: August 8, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9780520244436
Subjects: Population & demography; Genetics; Ethnic Studies - General; Ethnic Issues; United States; History: American; USA; History; History / General; Americas (North Central South West Indies); California; Eugenics
First sentence: At a ceremony held in Oregon's capitol building in December 2002, Governor John Kitzhaber stood before an overflowing crowd and apologized for the more than twenty-six hundred sterilizations performed in that state between 1917 and 1983.