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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Choice Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Cohen, Adam (Adam Seth)     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Cohen, Adam (Adam Seth)       by title:      Imbeciles : the Supr...       by call number:      363.97 C678i     Search the Web     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. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Nonfiction 363.97 C678i Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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