TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lombardo,Paul A.
TI  - A century of eugenics in America: from the Indiana experiment to the human genome era 
T2  - Bioethics and the humanities
SN  - 9780253004987
AV  - HQ755.5.U5 C46 2011eb
U1  - 363.9/2 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Human Genome Project
KW  - Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer
KW  - Bitterfeld
KW  - gnd
KW  - Eugenics
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - history
KW  - legislation & jurisprudence
KW  - History, 21st Century
KW  - Sterilization, Involuntary
KW  - History, 20th Century
KW  - Eugénisme
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Médecine
KW  - 21e siècle
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Infrastructure
KW  - fast
KW  - Eugenik
KW  - Genomprojekt
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The hoosier connection : compulsory sterilization as moral hygiene / Elof Axel Carlson -- The Indiana way of eugenics : sterilization laws, 1907-74 / Jason S. Lantzer -- From better babies to the bunglers : eugenics on tobacco road / Paul A. Lombardo -- "Quality, not mere quantity, counts" : black eugenics and the NAACP baby contests / Gregory Michael Dorr and Angela Logan -- From legislation to lived experience : eugenic sterilization in California and Indiana, 1907-79 / Alexandra Minna Stern -- Eugenics and social welfare in new deal Minnesota / Molly Ladd-Taylor -- Reassessing eugenic sterilization : the case of North Carolina / Johanna Schoen -- Protection or control? Women's health, sterilization abuse, and Relf v. Weinberger / Gregory Michael Dorr -- Are we entering a "perfect storm" for a resurgence of eugenics? Science, medicine, and their social context / Linda L. McCabe and Edward R.B. McCabe -- Modern eugenics and the law / Maxwell J. Mehlman
N2  - In 1907, Indiana passed the world's first involuntary sterilization law based on the theory of eugenics. In time, more than 30 states and a dozen foreign countries followed suit. Although the Indiana statute was later declared unconstitutional, other laws restricting immigration and regulating marriage on "eugenic" grounds were still in effect in the U.S. as late as the 1970s. A Century of Eugenics in America assesses the history of eugenics in the United States and its status in the age of the Human Geno
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