In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics by Victoria F. Nourse

In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics

Victoria F. Nourse

240 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative medium-paced
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In the 1920s and 1930s, thousands of men and women were sterilized at asylums and prisons across America. Believing that criminality and mental illness were inherited, state legislatures passed laws calling for the sterilization of “habitual crimi...

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