The Surgical Solution: A History of Involuntary Sterilization in the United States by Gerald N. Grob, Philip R. Reilly
The Surgical Solution: A History of Involuntary Sterilization in the United States

Gerald N. Grob, Philip R. Reilly

The Surgical Solution: A History of Involuntary Sterilization in the United States

Gerald N. Grob, Philip R. Reilly

190 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

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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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