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In 1927, the US Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell set the legal precedent that states may sterilize inmates of public institutions because the court…
LawEugenicsConstitutional courtsSterilization (Birth control)Involuntary SterilizationOn March 28, 1978, in Stump v. Sparkman, hereafter Stump, the United States Supreme Court held, in a five-to-three decision, that judges have…
LawSterilizationSterilization of womenInvoluntary SterilizationJudicial immunityHarry Hamilton Laughlin helped lead the eugenics movement in the United States during the early twentieth century. The US eugenics movement of the…
Laughlin, Harry Hamilton, 1880-1943American Eugenics SocietyEugenicsDavenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944Eugenics--United States--HistoryIn 1912, Henry Herbert Goddard published The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness, hereafter The Kallikak Family, in which…
LiteratureIntellectual DisabilityMental DeficiencyEugenicsEugenics--United States--HistoryBetter babies contests were competitions held in state fairs throughout the US during the early twentieth century in which babies between the ages of…
EugenicsEugenics--United StatesEugenics--United States--HistoryAgricultural exhibitionscompetitionsBetter babies contests were competitions held in state fairs throughout the US during the early twentieth century in which babies between the ages of…
EugenicsEugenics--United StatesEugenics--United States--HistoryAgricultural exhibitionscompetitions