Hansen, Randall.

Sterilized by the state : eugenics, race, and the population scare in twentieth-century North America / Randall Hansen, University of Toronto, Desmond King, Nuffield College, University of Oxford. - viii, 303 p. ; 23 cm

Introduction : coerced sterilization: outcomes, theories, methods -- The eugenicists : short portraits -- Eugenic anxieties -- Homes for the feebleminded -- The eugenicists' first throw: sterilization before the Second World War -- Buck v. bell and beyond -- Sterilization thwarted -- Sterilization and murder in Nazi Germany -- Revival and recovery : eugenics in new clothes -- Eugenics and world population growth -- The sterilized : voices from Alberta and Oregon -- Postwar sterilization : institutions and abuse -- Welfare, African Americans, and coerced sterilization -- Those who sterilized -- Conclusion : a century of coerced sterilization.

9781107032927 9781107659704 (paperback)

2013015860


Eugenics--History--United States--20th century.
Eugenics--History--Canada--20th century.
Sterilization (Birth control)--History--United States--20th century.
Sterilization (Birth control)--History--Canada--20th century.
Eugenesia--Historia--Estados Unidos--Siglo 20.
Eugenesia--Historia--Canada--siglo 20.
Esterilización (control de la natalidad)--Historia--Estados Unidos--siglo 20.

HQ 755.5 / H249s 2013

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