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Author Bruinius, Harry.

Title Better for all the world : the secret history of forced sterilization and America's quest for racial purity / Harry Bruinius.

Imprint New York : Knopf, 2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  363.920904 B834b 2006    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description 401 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references ([369-386]) and index.
Contents bk. 1. Introduction -- I. Prologue : a simple and painless procedure -- II. An epic quest in the modern world -- bk. 2. Three generations of imbeciles -- III. The purity of our women -- IV. A forgotten gravestone -- bk. 3. The sins of the fathers -- V. Hottentots in Kantsaywhere -- VI. A city upon a hill -- VII. The hideous serpent of hopelessly vicious protoplasm -- VIII. But, oh, alas for youthful pride -- IX. Oh, the bliss of being a mother! -- X. Citizens of the wrong type -- XI. Catechisms old and new -- XII. The making of a master race -- XIII. Neighborly love and beyond -- XIV. Harry's secret -- bk. 4. Generations lost -- XV. The palace of justice -- XVI. "What they did to me was sexual murder" -- XVII. Epilogue : the apex of civilization.
Subject Eugenics -- United States -- History.
Involuntary sterilization -- United States -- History.
Racism -- United States -- History.
Eugenics -- history -- United States.
Prejudice -- United States.
Sterilization, Involuntary -- history -- United States.
ISBN 0375413715
9780375413711
Standard No. NLM 101271496
NLGGC 274654385
YDXCP 2255312
IG# 0375413715
NZ1 9271799
AU@ 000026886287

 
    
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