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In reckless hands : Skinner v. Oklahoma and the near triumph of American eugenics / Victoria F. Nourse.
Van Pelt Library KF224.S486 N68 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nourse, Victoria F.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Skinner, Jack T., -1977--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Skinner, Jack T.
- Involuntary sterilization--Law and legislation--Oklahoma.
- Involuntary sterilization.
- Involuntary sterilization--Law and legislation--United States.
- Eugenics--United States--History.
- Eugenics.
- Involuntary sterilization--Law and legislation.
- United States.
- History.
- Oklahoma.
- Genre:
- Trial and arbitral proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2008]
- Contents:
- Prologue: an intellectual seduction
- The justice, the governor, and the dictator
- The brain trust
- Thoroughbreds
- Heat and love
- White trash
- Skinner's trial
- The Supreme Court in 1937
- Science in a foreign mirror : 1937-1941
- Deciding Skinner
- Epilogue : failures of modern memory.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [179]-228) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780393065299
- 0393065294
- OCLC:
- 181139411
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