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Eugenic Nation
Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America
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Alexandra Minna Stern
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English
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2015
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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.
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.
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Stern Alexandra Minna :
Alexandra Minna Stern is Professor of American Culture, Obstetrics and Gynecology, History, and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan.
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Contents
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Preface to the Second Edition
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Introduction
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Chapter 1. Race Betterment and Tropical Medicine in Imperial San Francisco
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Chapter 2. Quarantine and Eugenic Gatekeeping on the US-Mexican Border
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Chapter 3. Instituting Eugenics in California
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Chapter 4. “I Like to Keep My Body Whole”: Reconsidering Eugenic Sterilization in California
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Chapter 5. California’s Eugenic Landscapes
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Chapter 6. Centering Eugenics on the Family
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Chapter 7. Contesting Hereditarianism: Reassessing the 1960s
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Conclusion
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Acknowledgments
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Index
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December 8, 2015
eBook ISBN:
9780520960657
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2nd edition
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Keywords for this book
eugenics in the 21st century; california womens prisons; forced sterilization; us mexico relations; mexican american women; reproductive justice; inmate sterilization; california asylums; mental institutions; american political history; california political history; historians; california history; gender and sexuality; 20th century politics; human rights; political history; reproductive harm; eugenicists; academia; history; public health; race; bioethics; genetic technologies; eugenics; american history; academic; politics
