Chapter 1. Race Betterment and Tropical Medicine in Imperial San Francisco

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Preface to the Second Edition ix
5. Abbreviations xvii
6. Introduction 1
7. Chapter 1. Race Betterment and Tropical Medicine in Imperial San Francisco 28
8. Chapter 2. Quarantine and Eugenic Gatekeeping on the US-Mexican Border 57
9. Chapter 3. Instituting Eugenics in California 82
10. Chapter 4. “I Like to Keep My Body Whole”: Reconsidering Eugenic Sterilization in California 111
11. Chapter 5. California’s Eugenic Landscapes 139
12. Chapter 6. Centering Eugenics on the Family 173
13. Chapter 7. Contesting Hereditarianism: Reassessing the 1960s 205
14. Conclusion 234
15. Notes 243
16. Bibliography 325
17. Acknowledgments 365
18. Index 369