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240 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780393065299
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date: 01 July 2008
Description
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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240 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780393065299
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date: 01 July 2008
Description
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...