Eugenic nation : faults and frontiers of better breeding in modern America / Alexandra Minna Stern.

Berkeley : : University of California Press, [2005], ©2005.

xiv, 347 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-322) and index.

Introduction -- Race betterment and tropical medicine in imperial San Francisco -- Quarantine and eugenic gate-keeping on the U.S-Mexico border -- Instituting eugenics in California -- California's eugenic landscapes -- Centering eugenics on the family -- Contesting hereditarianism.