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100	1		_aCohen, Adam _q(Adam Seth),
245	1	0	_aImbeciles : _bthe Supreme Court, American eugenics, and the sterilization of Carrie Buck / _cAdam Cohen.
264		1	_aNew York : _bPenguin Press, _c2016.
300			_a402 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations : _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"One of America's great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court's infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of "undesirable" citizens the law of the land New York Times bestselling author Adam Cohen tells the story in Imbeciles of one of the darkest moments in the American legal tradition: the Supreme Court's decision to champion eugenic sterilization for the greater good of the country. In 1927, when the nation was caught up in eugenic fervor, the justices allowed Virginia to sterilize Carrie Buck, a perfectly normal young woman, for being an "imbecile." It is a story with many villains, from the superintendent of the Dickensian Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded who chose Carrie for sterilization to the former Missouri agriculture professor and Nazi sympathizer who was the nation's leading advocate for eugenic sterilization. But the most troubling actors of all were the eight Supreme Court justices who were in the majority--including William Howard Taft, the former president; Louis Brandeis, the legendary progressive; and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., America's most esteemed justice, who wrote the decision urging the nation to embark on a program of mass eugenic sterilization"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aBuck, Carrie, _d1906-1983 _xTrials, litigation, etc.
650		0	_aInvoluntary sterilization _xLaw and legislation _zUnited States.
650		0	_aEugenics _xLaw and legislation _zUnited States.
650		0	_aInvoluntary sterilization _xLaw and legislation _zVirginia.
650		7	_aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aLAW / Legal History. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aLAW / Civil Rights. _2bisacsh
653			_aBuck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927)
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aCohen, Adam (Adam Seth), author. _tImbeciles _dNew York : Penguin Press, 2016 _z9781101980835 _w(DLC) 2015044842
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