This book is the first comprehensive analysis of eugenics in North America focused on the second half of the twentieth century. Based on new research the authors show why eugenic sterilization policies persisted after the 1940s in the United States and Canada. Through extensive …
"This book is the first comprehensive analysis of eugenics in North America focused on the second half of the twentieth century. Based on new research the authors show why eugenic sterilization policies persisted after the 1940s in the United States and Canada. Through extensive…
Since the defeat of the Nazi Third Reich and the end of its horrific eugenics policies, battles over the politics of life, sex, and death have continued and evolved. The author documents how reproductive rights and disability rights, both latecomers to the postwar human rights c…
Since the defeat of the Nazi Third Reich and the end of its horrific eugenics policies, battles over the politics of life, sex, and death have continued and evolved. The author documents how reproductive rights and disability rights, both latecomers to the postwar human rights c…
Since the defeat of the Nazi Third Reich and the end of its horrific eugenics policies, battles over the politics of life, sex, and death have continued and evolved. The author documents how reproductive rights and disability rights, both latecomers to the postwar human rights c…
In 1912, Henry Goddard sighted the Kallikak family as proof of his theory that mental retardation was hereditary. J. David Smith examines Goddard's evidence and looks at how Goddard's theory has shaped government policies.
In 1912, Henry Goddard sighted the Kallikak family as proof of his theory that mental retardation was hereditary. J. David Smith examines Goddard's evidence and looks at how Goddard's theory has shaped government policies.
4ème de couv.: "Eugenics (human ecology) has always understood itself to be part of the struggle for human rights--those of future generations. Rejecting absolutely all taboos, John Glad here lays out the eugenic thrust of traditional Jewish culture and shows how Zionism itself …
"Eugenics (human ecology) has always understood itself to be part of the struggle for human rights--those of future generations. Rejecting absolutely all taboos, John Glad here lays out the eugenic thrust of traditional Jewish culture and shows how Zionism itself was conceived a…
Eugenics (human ecology) has always understood itself to be part of the struggle for human rights-- those of future generations. John Glad lays out the eugenic thrust of traditional Jewish culture and shows how Zionism itself was conceived as a grand eugenic plan. --From publish…
"Eugenics (human ecology) has always understood itself to be part of the struggle for human rights--those of future generations. Rejecting absolutely all taboos, John Glad here lays out the eugenic thrust of traditional Jewish culture and shows how Zionism itself was conceived a…
