In Reckless Hands
About this book
In the 1920s and 1930s, thousands of men and women were sterilized at asylums and prisons across America because it was believed that criminality and mental illness were inherited. This is the disturbing, forgotten history of America's experiment with eugenics.
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- OL Work ID
- OL9337194W
Subjects
EugenicsHistoryInvoluntary sterilizationLaw and legislationTrials, litigationCivil rights, united statesLaw, united states, casesPrisoners, biographyUnited states, social conditions, 1865-1945