Three Generations, No Imbeciles Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck V. Bell

Name: Three Generations, No Imbeciles Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck V. Bell
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ISBN: 9780801898242

ISBN-10: 0801898242

ISBN-13: 9780801898242

Edition: 2010

Authors: Paul A. Lombardo

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This is a chronicle of the 1927 Supreme Court case 'Buck v. Bell', which approved laws allowing states to perform surgery in order to prevent 'feebleminded and socially inadequate' people from having children.

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 10/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.02" long x 0.99" tall
Weight: 1.100
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.



Introduction


Prologue: The Expert Witness



Problem Families



Sex and Surgery



The Pedigree Factory



Studying Sterilization



The Mallory Case



Laughlin's Book



A Virginia Sterilization Law



Choosing Carrie Buck



Carrie Buck versus Dr. Priddy



Defenseless



On Appeal: Buck v. Bell



In the Supreme Court



Reactions and Repercussions



After the Supreme Court



Sterilizing Germans



Skinner v. Oklahoma



Buck, at Nuremberg and After



Rediscovering Buck


Epilogue: Reconsidering Buck


Acknowledgments



The Supreme Court Opinion




Virginia Eugenical Sterilization Act, 1924



Laws and Sterilizations by State


Notes


A Note on Sources


Index