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245 10 a| Breeding contempt :b| the history of coerced sterilization in the United States /c| Mark A. Largent.;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-199) and index.;

505 0 a| Acknowledgments -- Introduction: In the name of progress -- 1: Nipping the problem in the bud -- 2: Eugenics and the professionalisation of American biology -- 3: Legislative solution -- 4: Buck v Bell and the first organized resistance to coerced sterilization -- 5: Professions retreat -- Conclusion: The new coerced sterilization movement -- Appendix: Bibliography of twentieth-century American biology textbooks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.;

520 a| From the Publisher: Most closely associated today with the Nazis and World War II atrocities, eugenics is sometimes described as a government-orchestrated breeding program, other times as a pseudo-science, and often as the first step leading to genocide. Less frequently is it depicted as a movement having links to America-a nation that has historically prided itself for its scientific rationality. But eugenics does have a history in the United States-a history that is largely the story of biologist Charles Davenport. Davenport, who led the Eugenics Records Office in the late nineteenth century, provided physicians, social scientists, and lawmakers with the scientific data and authority that enabled them to coercively sterilize men and women who were thought to be socially deviant, unfit to pass on their genes, and unable to raise healthy children. Moreover, Mark A. Largent shows how even in modern times, remnants of eugenics philosophies persist in this country as certain public figures advocate a brand of birth control-such as progesterone shots for male criminals-that are only steps away from the castrations that were once performed.;

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Breeding contempt : the history of coerced sterilization in the United States / Mark A. Largent.

Author/creator	Largent, Mark A.
Format	Book
Publication Info	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2008.
Description	x, 213 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents only
Subjects	Involuntary sterilization--United States. --History. Eugenics--United States. --History.

Contents	Acknowledgments -- Introduction: In the name of progress -- 1: Nipping the problem in the bud -- 2: Eugenics and the professionalisation of American biology -- 3: Legislative solution -- 4: Buck v Bell and the first organized resistance to coerced sterilization -- 5: Professions retreat -- Conclusion: The new coerced sterilization movement -- Appendix: Bibliography of twentieth-century American biology textbooks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract	From the Publisher: Most closely associated today with the Nazis and World War II atrocities, eugenics is sometimes described as a government-orchestrated breeding program, other times as a pseudo-science, and often as the first step leading to genocide. Less frequently is it depicted as a movement having links to America-a nation that has historically prided itself for its scientific rationality. But eugenics does have a history in the United States-a history that is largely the story of biologist Charles Davenport. Davenport, who led the Eugenics Records Office in the late nineteenth century, provided physicians, social scientists, and lawmakers with the scientific data and authority that enabled them to coercively sterilize men and women who were thought to be socially deviant, unfit to pass on their genes, and unable to raise healthy children. Moreover, Mark A. Largent shows how even in modern times, remnants of eugenics philosophies persist in this country as certain public figures advocate a brand of birth control-such as progesterone shots for male criminals-that are only steps away from the castrations that were once performed.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-199) and index.
Issued in other form	Online version: Largent, Mark A. Breeding contempt. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008
Issued in other form	Online version: Largent, Mark A. Breeding contempt. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008
LCCN	2007000029
ISBN	9780813541822 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN	0813541824 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780813541839 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN	0813541832 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Breeding contempt : the history of coerced sterilization in the United States / Mark A. Largent.

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