Framing the moron : the social construction of feeble-mindedness in the American eugenic era /

Many people are shocked upon discovering that tens of thousands of innocent persons in the United States were involuntarily sterilized, forced into institutions, and otherwise maltreated within the course of the eugenic movement (1900-30). Such social control efforts are easier to understand when we...

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Main Author: O'Brien, Gerald V. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017.
New York [New York] : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan 2013.
New York [New York] : Manchester University Press,
Series:Disability history.
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