Century of Eugenics in America From the Indiana Experiment to the Human Genome Era

Name: Century of Eugenics in America From the Indiana Experiment to the Human Genome Era
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ISBN: 9780253222695

ISBN-10: 0253222699

ISBN-13: 9780253222695

Edition: 2011

Authors: Paul A. Lombardo, Maxwell J. Mehlman, Angela Logan, Jason Lantzer, Alexandra M. Stern

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Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 1/6/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 268
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Paul A. Lombardo is a professor of law at Georgia State University College of Law. He has played a key role, both as an historian and a lawyer, in the movement to solicit state apologies and legislative denunciations of past eugenics laws.

Alexandra Minna Stern is Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Santa Cruz.



Preface & Acknowledgments


Introduction: Looking Back at Eugenics




The Indiana Origins of Eugenic Sterilization



The Hoosier Connection: Compulsory Sterilization as Moral Hygiene




The Indiana Way of Eugenics: Sterilization Laws, 1907-74




Eugenics and Popular Culture



From Better Babies to the Bunglers: Eugenics on Tobacco Road




"Quality, Not Mere Quantity, Counts": Black Eugenics and the NAACP Baby Contests




State Studies of Eugenic Sterilization



From Legislation to Lived Experience: Eugenic Sterilization in California and Indiana, 1907-79




Eugenics and Social Welfare in New Deal Minnesota




Reassessing Eugenic Sterilization: The Case of North Carolina




Protection or Control? Women's Health, Sterilization Abuse, and Relf v. Weinberger




Eugenics in the Human Genome Era



Are We Entering a "Perfect Storm" for a Resurgence of Eugenics? Science, Medicine, and Their Social Context




Modern Eugenics and the Law



List of Contributors


Index