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Gerald N. Grob, Philip R. Reilly
190 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780801840968
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 01 April 1991
Description
A study of court-ordered or -tolerated vasectomization (from 1898) and tubal ligation (in the 1920s) for "mental defectives" in the pursuit of eugenics. Some 60,000 men and women in the US were affected into the 1960s.
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Gerald N. Grob, Philip R. Reilly
190 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780801840968
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 01 April 1991
Description
A study of court-ordered or -tolerated vasectomization (from 1898) and tubal ligation (in the 1920s) for "mental defectives" in the pursuit of eugenics. Some 60,000 men and women in the US were affected into the 1960s.