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Framing the MoronFraming the Moron

Framing the Moron

Walton Schalick, Gerald O'Brien, Gerald V. O'Brien, JULIE ANDERSON

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Framing the moron details the variety of dehumanizing and fear-inducing rhetoric employed by the American eugenic movement during the early twentieth century, which led to tens of thousands of innocent people being involuntarily sterilized, forced into institutions, and otherwise maltreated.

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OL21052954W

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Involuntary sterilizationUnited states, historyEugenicsHistoryFormal Social ControlMentally Disabled PersonsInstitutionalizationDehumanizationIntellectual DisabilityClassificationPersons with Mental DisabilitiesEugenics in mass mediaSocial aspectsAmerican PropagandaMetaphor

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