Fixing the poor : eugenic sterilization and child welfare in the twentieth century / Molly Ladd-Taylor.
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2017]Description: ix, 275 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781421423722 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1421423723 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9781421423739 (electronic)
- 1421423731 (electronic)
- Involuntary sterilization -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Sterilization (Birth control) -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Eugenics -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Mentally ill -- Government policy -- United States -- 20th century
- Poor -- Government policy -- United States -- 20th century
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- HV4989 .L24 2017
Contents:
The feebleminded menace and the innocent child -- Two roads to sterilization -- Who was feebleminded? -- The price of freedom -- Sterilization and welfare in depression and war -- From fixing the poor to fixing the system?
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The feebleminded menace and the innocent child -- Two roads to sterilization -- Who was feebleminded? -- The price of freedom -- Sterilization and welfare in depression and war -- From fixing the poor to fixing the system?
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