Sterilized by the state : eugenics, race, and the population scare in twentieth-century North America /
Hansen, Randall.
Sterilized by the state : eugenics, race, and the population scare in twentieth-century North America / Randall Hansen, University of Toronto, Desmond King, Nuffield College, University of Oxford. - viii, 303 pages ; 23 cm
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.
9781107032927 9781107659704 (paperback)
2013015860
Eugenics--History--United States--20th century.
Eugenics--History--Canada--20th century.
Sterilization (Birth control)--History--United States--20th century.
Sterilization (Birth control)--History--Canada--20th century.
HQ755.5.U5 / H36 2013
363.9/20973
Sterilized by the state : eugenics, race, and the population scare in twentieth-century North America / Randall Hansen, University of Toronto, Desmond King, Nuffield College, University of Oxford. - viii, 303 pages ; 23 cm
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.
9781107032927 9781107659704 (paperback)
2013015860
Eugenics--History--United States--20th century.
Eugenics--History--Canada--20th century.
Sterilization (Birth control)--History--United States--20th century.
Sterilization (Birth control)--History--Canada--20th century.
HQ755.5.U5 / H36 2013
363.9/20973