Framing the Moron

Framing the Moron
Walton Schalick, Gerald O'Brien, Gerald V. O'Brien, JULIE ANDERSON
About this book
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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- OL Work ID
- OL21052954W
Subjects
Involuntary sterilizationUnited states, historyEugenicsHistoryFormal Social ControlMentally Disabled PersonsInstitutionalizationDehumanizationIntellectual DisabilityClassificationPersons with Mental DisabilitiesEugenics in mass mediaSocial aspectsAmerican PropagandaMetaphor