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Eugenic nation : faults and frontiers of better breeding in modern America / Alexandra Minna Stern.
De Gruyter University of California Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stern, Alexandra Minna, 1966- author.
- Series:
- American crossroads.
- American crossroads
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Eugenics.
- Eugenics--California--History.
- Eugenics--United States--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- First edition, Winner of the Arthur J. Viseltear Prize, American Public Health Association With an emphasis on the American West, Eugenic Nation explores the long and unsettled history of eugenics in the United States. This expanded second edition includes shocking details demonstrating that eugenics continues to inform institutional and reproductive injustice. Alexandra Minna Stern draws on recently uncovered historical records to reveal patterns of racial bias in California's sterilization program and documents compelling individual experiences. With the addition of radically new and relevant research, this edition connects the eugenic past to the genomic present with attention to the ethical and social implications of emerging genetic technologies.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Race Betterment and Tropical Medicine in Imperial San Francisco
- Chapter 2. Quarantine and Eugenic Gatekeeping on the US-Mexican Border
- Chapter 3. Instituting Eugenics in California
- Chapter 4. "I Like to Keep My Body Whole": Reconsidering Eugenic Sterilization in California
- Chapter 5. California's Eugenic Landscapes
- Chapter 6. Centering Eugenics on the Family
- Chapter 7. Contesting Hereditarianism: Reassessing the 1960s
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-364) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780520285064
- 9780520960657
- 0520960653
- OCLC:
- 1102804779
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