Publication

2008-07-21 - W. W. Norton

Language

English

Word Count

64,000 words, Guess

Page Count

256 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 5 more
  • LibraryThing5498330
  • Library of Congress Control Number2008013140
  • OCLC Control Number181139411
  • Better World Books9780393065299
  • Open LibraryOL10157339M

Classifications

  • LCCKF224.S486 N68 2008
  • LCCKF224.S486N68 2008

Description

In the 1920s and 1930s, thousands of men and women were sterilized at asylums and prisons across America because it was believed that criminality and mental illness were inherited. This is the disturbing, forgotten history of America's experiment with eugenics.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American EugenicsHardcoverW. W. Norton2008-07-21

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