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Cohen, Adam (Adam Seth)
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Buck, Carrie, 1906-1983 -- Trials, litigation, etc
Involuntary sterilization -- Virginia -- History.
Involuntary sterilization -- United States -- History.
Involuntary sterilization -- Law and legislation -- Virginia.
Involuntary sterilization -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Eugenics -- United States -- History.
Eugenics -- Law and legislation -- United States.
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Cohen, Adam (Adam Seth)
Buck, Carrie, 1906-1983 -- Trials, litigation, etc
Involuntary sterilization -- Virginia -- History.
Involuntary sterilization -- United States -- History.
Involuntary sterilization -- Law and legislation -- Virginia.
Involuntary sterilization -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Eugenics -- United States -- History.
Eugenics -- Law and legislation -- United States.
MARC Display
Imbeciles
: the
Supreme
Court
,
American
eugenics
, and the
sterilization
of
Carrie
Buck
/ Adam Cohen.
by
Cohen, Adam (Adam Seth)
Penguin Press, 2016.
Call #:
363.97 C678i
Subjects
Buck
,
Carrie
, 1906-1983 -- Trials, litigation, etc
Involuntary
sterilization
-- Virginia -- History.
Involuntary
sterilization
-- United States -- History.
Involuntary
sterilization
-- Law and legislation -- Virginia.
Involuntary
sterilization
-- Law and legislation -- United States.
Eugenics
-- United States -- History.
Eugenics
-- Law and legislation -- United States.
ISBN:
9781594204180 (hc.)
Description:
402 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-382) and index
Contents:
Carrie
Buck
-- Albert Priddy -- Albert Priddy -- Harry Laughlin -- Harry Laughlin -- Aubrey Strode -- Aubrey Strode -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Oliver Wendell Holmes --
Carrie
Buck
Summary:
"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. 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
"--Provided by publisher.
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