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Eugenic nation : faults and frontiers of better breeding in modern America
- Author
- Stern, Alexandra Minna, 1966-
- Title
- Eugenic nation : faults and frontiers of better breeding in modern America / Alexandra Minna Stern.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.
- Description
- xiv, 347 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- URL
- <Table of contents only> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0422/2004021041.html <Contributor biographical information> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0616/2004021041-b.html <Publisher description> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0616/2004021041-d.html
- Series
- American crossroads ; 17
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-322) and index.
- Contents
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- Introduction
- Race betterment and tropical medicine in imperial San Francisco
- Quarantine and eugenic gate-keeping on the U.S-Mexico border
- Instituting eugenics in California
- California's eugenic landscapes
- Centering eugenics on the family
- Contesting hereditarianism.
- Kinsey subjects
- Eugenics--United States.. Eugenics--California. Fertility control. Sterilization.
- ISBN
- 0520244435 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780520244436 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520244443 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780520244443 (pbk. : alk. paper)