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Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
By Cohen, Adam
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- 9781594204180 9781101980835
- Publisher
- Penguin
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Reviewed on December 1, 2015 | Social Sciences
The Supreme Court case of Buck v. Bell (1927) made forced sterilization legal in the United States and resulted in the sterilization of 70,000 Americans. Cohen (former senior writer, Time Magazine; Nothing To Fear) examines the eugenics movement that led to the court case and that was used as a model for eugenics in Nazi Germany. In the book's introduction, the author describes 1920s America as "caught in a mania to...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
