In reckless hands : Skinner v. Oklahoma and the near triumph of American eugenics / Victoria F. Nourse.
- Nourse, Victoria F.
- Date:
- 2008
- Books
About this work
Description
In the 1920s and 1930s, thousands of men and women were sterilized at asylums and prisons across America because it was believed that criminality and mental illness were inherited. This is the disturbing, forgotten history of America's experiment with eugenics.
Publication/Creation
New York ; London : W.W. Norton & Co., 2008.
Physical description
240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Contents
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.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references ( p. 179-228) and index.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineJL.6Open shelves
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ISBN
- 9780393065299
- 0393065294