Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-199) and index.
Contents
Introduction : in the name of progress -- Nipping the problem in the bud -- Eugenics and the professionalization of American biology -- The legislative solution -- Buck v. Bell and the first organized resistance to coerced sterilization -- The professions retreat -- Conclusion : the new coerced sterilization movement -- Appendix : Bibliography of twentieth-century American biology textbooks.
