Index of NLM Serial Titles
Index of NLM Serial Titles

Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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Total Pages: 772

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A keyword listing of serial titles currently received by the National Library of Medicine.

Sterilized by the State
Sterilized by the State

Author: Randall Hansen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-08-26

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 110703292X

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This book shows how eugenic sterilization policies were maintained after the 1940s in the United States and Canada despite the discrediting of such theories by comparable Nazi Germany policies. It focuses on the individual experience of victims of sterilization, the doctors concerned, and the mental health institutions that protected the system.

Unspeakable
Unspeakable

Author: Susan Burch

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 0807831557

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Tells the story of a deaf African-American man born in the Jim Crow South who, though sane, was incarcerated in a North Carolina state hospital for the insane for nearly all of his life.

Choice and Coercion
Choice and Coercion

Author: Johanna Schoen

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2009-10

Total Pages: 654

ISBN-13: 1458731480

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In August 2003, North Carolina became the first U.S. state to offer restitution to victims of state-ordered sterilizations carried out by its eugenics program between 1929 and 1975. The decision was prompted by newspaper stories based on the research of Johanna Schoen, who was granted unique access to summaries of 7,500 case histories and the pa...