LEADER 03792nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910778230103321 005 20230721032052.0 010 $a1-281-15142-4 010 $a9786611151423 010 $a0-8135-4380-0 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813543802 035 $a(CKB)1000000000483389 035 $a(EBL)328686 035 $a(OCoLC)437197048 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000114639 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11131701 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000114639 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10124832 035 $a(PQKB)10714501 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC328686 035 $a(OCoLC)191677776 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8038 035 $a(DE-B1597)529648 035 $a(OCoLC)1125187937 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813543802 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL328686 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10214182 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL115142 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000483389 100 $a20070104d2008 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBreeding contempt$b[electronic resource] $ethe history of coerced sterilization in the United States /$fMark A. Largent 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (228 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8135-4182-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 181-199) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: In the Name of Progress --$t1. Nipping the Problem in the Bud --$t2. Eugenics and the Professionalization of American Biology --$t3. The Legislative Solution --$t4. Buck v. Bell and the First Organized Resistance to Coerced Sterilization --$t5. The Professions Retreat --$tConclusion: The New Coerced Sterilization Movement --$tAppendix. Bibliography of Twentieth-Century American Biology Textbooks --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aMost closely associated 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 it is recognized as a movement having links to the United States. But eugenics does have a history in this country, and Mark A. Largent tells that story by exploring one of its most disturbing aspects, the compulsory sterilization of more than 64,000 Americans. The book begins in the mid-nineteenth century, when American medical doctors began advocating the sterilization of citizens they deemed degenerate. By the turn of the twentieth century, physicians, biologists, and social scientists championed the cause, and lawmakers in two-thirds of the United States enacted laws that required the sterilization of various criminals, mental health patients, epileptics, and syphilitics. The movement lasted well into the latter half of the century, and Largent shows how even today the sentiments that motivated coerced sterilization persist as certain public figures advocate compulsory birth control-such as progesterone shots for male criminals or female welfare recipients-based on the same assumptions and motivations that had brought about thousands of coerced sterilizations decades ago. 606 $aInvoluntary sterilization$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aEugenics$zUnited States$xHistory 615 0$aInvoluntary sterilization$xHistory. 615 0$aEugenics$xHistory. 676 $a363.9/7 700 $aLargent$b Mark A$01179452 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778230103321 996 $aBreeding contempt$93796247 997 $aUNINA