A Century of eugenics in America: from the Indiana Experiment to the human genome era

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Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Looking Back at Eugenics / Paul A. Lombardo Part 1. The Indiana Origins of Eugenic Sterilization 1. The Hoosier Connection: Compulsory Sterilization as Moral Hygiene / Elof Axel Carlson 2. The Indiana Way of Eugenics: Sterilization Laws, 1907-74 / Jason S. Lantzer Part 2. Eugenics and Popular Culture 3. From Better Babies to the Bunglers: Eugenics on Tobacco Road / Paul A. Lombardo 4. Quality, Not Mere Quantity, Counts: Black Eugenics and the NAACP Baby Contests / Gregory Michael Dorr and Angela Logan Part 3. State Studies of Eugenic Sterilization 5. From Legislation to Lived Experience: Eugenic Sterilization in California and Indiana, 1907-79 / Alexandra Minna Stern 6. Eugenics and Social Welfare in New Deal Minnesota / Molly Ladd-Taylor 7. Reassessing Eugenic Sterilization: The Case of North Carolina / Johanna Schoen 8. Protection or Control? Women's Health, Sterilization Abuse, and Relf v. Weinberger / Gregory Michael Dorr Part 4. Eugenics in the Human Genome Era 9. 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 10. Modern Eugenics and the Law / Maxwell J. Mehlman List of Contributors Index

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