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020    9781594204180 |q(hardback)
020    1594204187 |q(hardback)
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050 00 KF224.B83 |bC64 2016
100 1  Cohen, Adam |q(Adam Seth), |eauthor.
245 10 Imbeciles : |bthe Supreme Court, American eugenics, and the sterilization of Carrie Buck / |cAdam Cohen.
264  1 New York : |bPenguin Press, |c2016.
300    402 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |billustrations ; |c25 cm
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-382) and index.
505 0  Carrie Buck -- Albert Priddy -- Albert Priddy -- Harry Laughlin -- Harry Laughlin -- Aubrey Strode -- Aubrey Strode -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Carrie Buck.
520    Describes a dark moment in American history, when the Supreme Court agreed, in 1927, to support eugenic sterilization for "undesirables," including epileptics and the "feebleminded," resulting in the sterilization of seventy thousand Americans.  --Publisher's description.
520    "One of America's great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court's infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of "undesirable" citizens the law of the land. New York Times bestselling author Adam Cohen tells the story in Imbeciles of one of the darkest moments in the American legal tradition: the Supreme Court's decision to champion eugenic sterilization for the greater good of the country. In 1927, when the nation was caught up in eugenic fervor, the justices allowed Virginia to sterilize Carrie Buck, a perfectly normal young woman, for being an "imbecile." It is a story with many villains, from the superintendent of the Dickensian Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded who chose Carrie for sterilization to the former Missouri agriculture professor and Nazi sympathizer who was the nation's leading advocate for eugenic sterilization. But the most troubling actors of all were the eight Supreme Court justices who were in the majority--including William Howard Taft, the former president; Louis Brandeis, the legendary progressive; and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., America's most esteemed justice, who wrote the decision urging the nation to embark on a program of mass eugenic sterilization"-- |cProvided by publisher.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
600 10 Buck, Carrie, |d1906-1983 |xTrials, litigation, etc.
650  0 Involuntary sterilization |xLaw and legislation |zUnited States.
650  0 Eugenics |xLaw and legislation |zUnited States.
650  0 Involuntary sterilization |xLaw and legislation |zVirginia.
600 17 Buck, Carrie, |d1906-1983. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00266702
650  7 Eugenics |xLaw and legislation. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00916436
650  7 Involuntary sterilization |xLaw and legislation. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01430560
650  7 Trials. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01156290
651  7 United States. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01204155
651  7 Virginia. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01204597
776 08  |iOnline version:Cohen, Adam (Adam Seth), author. |tImbeciles |z9781101980835 |w(DLC)  2015044842 |w(OCoLC)929332235
852 0   |bstacks |hKF224.B83 |iC64 2016