In Reckless Hands Skinner V. Oklahoma and the near-Triumph of American Eugenics

Name: In Reckless Hands Skinner V. Oklahoma and the near-Triumph of American Eugenics
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ISBN: 9780393065299

ISBN-10: 0393065294

ISBN-13: 9780393065299

Edition: 2008

Authors: Victoria F. Nourse

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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 "feebleminded." But in 1936, inmates at Oklahoma's McAlester prison refused to cooperate; a man named Jack Skinner was the first to come to trial. A colorful and heroic cast of charactersfrom the inmates themselves to their devoted, self-taught lawyerwould fight the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Only after Americans learned the extent of another…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/17/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 250
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.96" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English

Victoria F. Nourse received her JD degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Currently the Burrus-Bascom Professor of Criminal and Constitutional Law at the University of Wisconsin, she lives in Shorewood, Wisconsin.



Prologue: An Intellectual Seduction



The Justice, the Governor, and the Dictator



The Brain Trust



Thoroughbreds



Heat and Love



White Trash



Skinner's Trial



The Supreme Court in 1937



Science in a Foreign Mirror: 1937-1941



Deciding Skinner


Epilogue: Failures of Modern Memory


Acknowledgments and Method


Notes


Index