Sterilized By The State

Author : Randall Hansen,Desmond King
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107434592

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Sterilized by the State by Randall Hansen,Desmond King Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of eugenics in North America focused on the second half of the twentieth century. Based on new research, Randall Hansen and Desmond King show why eugenic sterilization policies persisted after the 1940s in the United States and Canada. Through extensive archival research, King and Hansen show how both superintendents at homes for the 'feebleminded' and pro-sterilization advocates repositioned themselves after 1945 to avoid the taint of Nazi eugenics. Drawing on interviews with victims of sterilization and primary documents, this book traces the post-1940s development of eugenic policy and shows that both eugenic arguments and committed eugenicists informed population, welfare, and birth control policy in postwar America. In providing revisionist histories of the choice movement, the anti-population growth movement, and the Great Society programs, this book contributes to public policy and political and intellectual history.

Author : Adam Seth Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781594204180

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Imbeciles by Adam Seth Cohen Pdf

One of America's great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court's infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of "undesirable" citizens the law of the land New York Times bestselling author Adam Cohen tells the story in Imbeciles of one of the darkest moments in the American legal tradition: the Supreme Court's decision to champion eugenic sterilization for the greater good of the country. In 1927, when the nation was caught up in eugenic fervor, the justices allowed Virginia to sterilize Carrie Buck, a perfectly normal young woman, for being an "imbecile." It is a story with many villains, from the superintendent of the Dickensian Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded who chose Carrie for sterilization to the former Missouri agriculture professor and Nazi sympathizer who was the nation's leading advocate for eugenic sterilization. But the most troubling actors of all were the eight Supreme Court justices who were in the majority - including William Howard Taft, the former president; Louis Brandeis, the legendary progressive; and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., America's most esteemed justice, who wrote the decision urging the nation to embark on a program of mass eugenic sterilization. Exposing this tremendous injustice--which led to the sterilization of 70,000 Americans--Imbeciles overturns cherished myths and reappraises heroic figures in its relentless pursuit of the truth. With the precision of a legal brief and the passion of a front-page exposé, Cohen's Imbeciles is an unquestionable triumph of American legal and social history, an ardent accusation against these acclaimed men and our own optimistic faith in progress.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781458731340

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Choice & Coercion (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Comfort Edition) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gunnar Broberg,Nils Roll-Hansen
Publisher : Uppsala Studies in History of
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0870137581

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Eugenics and the Welfare State by Gunnar Broberg,Nils Roll-Hansen Pdf

In 1997 Eugenics and the Welfare State caused an uproar with international repercussions. This edition contains a new introduction by Broberg and Roll-Hansen, addressing events that occurred following the original publication. The four essays in this book stand as a chilling indictment of mass sterilization practices, not only in Scandinavia but in other European countries and the United States--eugenics practices that remained largely hidden from the public view until recently. Eugenics and the Welfare State also provides an in-depth, critical examination of the history, politics, science, and economics that led to mass sterilization programs in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland; programs put in place for the "betterment of society" and based largely on the "junk science" of eugenics that was popular before the rise of Nazism in Germany. When the results of Broberg's and Roll-Hansen's book were widely publicized in August 1997, the London Observer reported, "Yesterday Margot Wallstrom, the Swedish Minister for Social Policy, issued a belated reaction to the revelations. She said: 'What went on is barbaric and a national disgrace.' She pledged to create a law ensuring that involuntary sterilisation would never again be used in Sweden, and promised compensation to victims." Ultimately, the Swedish government not only apologized to the many thousands who had been sterilized without their knowledge or against their will, but also put in place a program for the payment of reparations to these unfortunate victims.

Author : Gunnar Broberg,Nils Roll-Hansen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015036082686

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Eugenics and the Welfare State by Gunnar Broberg,Nils Roll-Hansen Pdf

The history of sterilization in the Nordic countries shows the interaction between science, political ideology, and the development of social policy.

Author : Mark A. Largent
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813549989

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Breeding Contempt by Mark A. Largent Pdf

From the Publisher: Most closely associated today with the Nazis and World War II atrocities, eugenics is sometimes described as a government-orchestrated breeding program, other times as a pseudo-science, and often as the first step leading to genocide. Less frequently is it depicted as a movement having links to America-a nation that has historically prided itself for its scientific rationality. But eugenics does have a history in the United States-a history that is largely the story of biologist Charles Davenport. Davenport, who led the Eugenics Records Office in the late nineteenth century, provided physicians, social scientists, and lawmakers with the scientific data and authority that enabled them to coercively sterilize men and women who were thought to be socially deviant, unfit to pass on their genes, and unable to raise healthy children. Moreover, Mark A. Largent shows how even in modern times, remnants of eugenics philosophies persist in this country as certain public figures advocate a brand of birth control-such as progesterone shots for male criminals-that are only steps away from the castrations that were once performed.

Author : Molly Ladd-Taylor
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421423722

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Fixing the Poor by Molly Ladd-Taylor Pdf

Combining innovative political analysis with a compelling social history of those caught up in Minnesota's welfare system, Fixing the Poor is a powerful reinterpretation of eugenic sterilization.

Author : Johanna Schoen
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807837597

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Women and the Politics of Sterilization by Johanna Schoen Pdf

In 2003, North Carolina became the third U.S. state to apologize and the first to call for compensation to victims of state-ordered sterilizations carried out between 1929 and 1975. The decision was prompted largely by a series of articles in the Winston-Salem Journal. The stories were inspired in part by the meticulous research of Johanna Schoen, who was granted unique access to the papers of the North Carolina Eugenics Board and to summaries of the case histories of nearly 7600 victims--men, women, and children as young as ten years old--most of whom had been sterilized without their consent. In 2011, a gubernatorial task force held public hearings to gather testimony from the victims and their families before recommending in early 2012 that each living victim be granted $50,000 compensation. The restitution proposal requires legislative approval before funds can be dispersed. In this UNC Press Short, excerpted from Choice and Coercion, Schoen explains the legal construction of North Carolina's sterilization program, which lasted far longer than similar programs in other states, and demonstrates through the stories of several women how the state was able to deny women who were poor, uneducated, African American, or "promiscuous" reproductive autonomy in multiple ways. UNC Press Shorts excerpt compelling, shorter narratives from selected best-selling books published by the University of North Carolina Press and present them as engaging, quick reads. Presented exclusively as e-books, these shorts present essential concepts, defining moments, and concise introductions to topics. They are intended to stir the imagination and courage exploration of the original publications from which they are drawn.

Author : Johanna Schoen
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781458731487

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Choice and Coercion by Johanna Schoen Pdf

In August 2003, North Carolina became the first U.S. state to offer restitution to victims of state-ordered sterilizations carried out by its eugenics program between 1929 and 1975. The decision was prompted by newspaper stories based on the research of Johanna Schoen, who was granted unique access to summaries of 7,500 case histories and the pa...

Author : Molly Ladd-Taylor
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781421423739

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Fixing the Poor by Molly Ladd-Taylor Pdf

How state welfare politics—not just concerns with "race improvement"—led to eugenic sterilization practices. Honorable Mention, 2018 Outstanding Book Award, The Disability History AssociationShortlist, 2019 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical Association Between 1907 and 1937, thirty-two states legalized the sterilization of more than 63,000 Americans. In Fixing the Poor, Molly Ladd-Taylor tells the story of these state-run eugenic sterilization programs. She focuses on one such program in Minnesota, where surgical sterilization was legally voluntary and administered within a progressive child welfare system. Tracing Minnesota's eugenics program from its conceptual origins in the 1880s to its official end in the 1970s, Ladd-Taylor argues that state sterilization policies reflected a wider variety of worldviews and political agendas than previously understood. She describes how, after 1920, people endorsed sterilization and its alternative, institutionalization, as the best way to aid dependent children without helping the "undeserving" poor. She also sheds new light on how the policy gained acceptance and why coerced sterilizations persisted long after eugenics lost its prestige. In Ladd-Taylor's provocative study, eugenic sterilization appears less like a deliberate effort to improve the gene pool than a complicated but sadly familiar tale of troubled families, fiscal and administrative politics, and deep-felt cultural attitudes about disability, dependency, sexuality, and gender. Drawing on institutional and medical records, court cases, newspapers, and professional journals, Ladd-Taylor reconstructs the tragic stories of the welfare-dependent, sexually delinquent, and disabled people who were labeled "feebleminded" and targeted for sterilization. She chronicles the routine operation of Minnesota's three-step policy of eugenic commitment, institutionalization, and sterilization in the 1920s and 1930s and shows how surgery became the "price of freedom" from a state institution. Combining innovative political analysis with a compelling social history of those caught up in Minnesota's welfare system, Fixing the Poor is a powerful reinterpretation of eugenic sterilization.

Author : Jonas B. Robitscher
Publisher : Charles C. Thomas Publisher
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UVA:X000243441

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Eugenic Sterilization by Jonas B. Robitscher Pdf

Author : Harry Hamilton Laughlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : NWU:35556036884625

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Eugenical Sterilization in the United States by Harry Hamilton Laughlin Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Catte
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781953368058

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Pure America by Elizabeth Catte Pdf

Longlisted for the 2022 PEN America John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, a "riveting and tightly argued" history of eugenics and its ripple effects, by acclaimed historian Elizabeth Catte. Between 1927 and 1979

Author : Paul A. Lombardo
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253222695

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A Century of Eugenics in America by Paul A. Lombardo Pdf

This volume assesses the history of eugenics in the United States and its status in the age of the Human Genome Project. The essays explore the early support of compulsory sterilization by doctors and legislators.

Author : Alexandra Minna Stern
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520285064

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Eugenic Nation by Alexandra Minna Stern Pdf

"With an emphasis on the American West, Eugenic Nation explores the long and unsettled history of eugenics in the United States. This expanded second edition includes shocking details that demonstrate that the story is far from over. Alexandra Minna Stern explores the unauthorized sterilization of female inmates in California state prisons and ongoing reparations for North Carolina victims of sterilization, as well as the topics of race-based intelligence tests, school segregation, the U.S. Border Patrol, tropical medicine, the environmental movement, and opposition to better breeding. Radically new and relevant, this edition draws from recently uncovered historical records to demonstrate patterns of racial bias in California's sterilization program and to recover personal experiences of reproductive injustice. Stern connects the eugenic past to the genomic present with attention to the ethical and social implications of emerging genetic technologies"--Provided by publisher.