Breeding contempt : the history of coerced sterilization in the United States /

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Author / Creator:Largent, Mark A., author.
Imprint:New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2008.
Description:1 online resource (x, 213 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11159016
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ISBN:9780813543802
0813543800
1281151424
9781281151421
9786611151423
6611151427
9780813541822
0813541824
9780813541839
0813541832
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-199) and index.
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Summary:Widespread sterilization programs are most closely associated with the Nazis and World War II atrocities. Less frequently are they recognized as efforts that were undertaken by American lawmakers, scientists, and health care providers. Mark A. Largent explores the history of compulsory sterilization in the United States by examining the assumptions and motivations that led to the coerced sterilization of tens of thousands of Americans during the twentieth century. The book begins in the mid-nineteenth century, when American medical doctors began advocating the sterilization of citizens they de.
Other form:Print version: Largent, Mark A. Breeding contempt. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2008 9780813541822 0813541824