Sterilized by the state : eugenics, race, and the population scare in twentieth-century North America

Publication Data

• Title Sterilized by the state : eugenics, race, and the population scare in twentieth-century North America
• Author Randall Hansen
• Contributor Desmond S. King
• Publisher Cambridge University Press
• Publication date 2013
• Publication location Cambridge
• Language English

Contents

Introduction : coerced sterilization: outcomes, theories, methods
The eugenicists : short portraits
Eugenic anxieties
Homes for the feebleminded
The eugenicists' first throw: sterilization 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.

Topics

• Eugenics :: United States :: History :: 20th century
• Eugenics :: Canada :: History :: 20th century
• Sterilization (Birth control) :: United States :: History :: 20th century
• 016418985

Sterilized by the state : eugenics, race, and the population scare in twentieth-century North America by Randall Hansen. ISBN 9781107659704. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.