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In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics
In Reckless Hands Skinner v Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics
Author: Victoria F. Nourse
The disturbing, forgotten history of America's experiment with eugenics. — In the 1920s and 1930s, thousands of men and women were sterilized at asylums and prisons across America. Believing that criminality and mental illness were inherited, state legislatures passed laws calling for the sterilization of "habitual criminals" and the "feeb...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393065299
ISBN-10: 0393065294
Publication Date: 7/21/2008
Pages: 256
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Publisher: W. W. Norton
Book Type: Hardcover
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