Victoria F Nourse: 1 book

Book cover of In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics
by Victoria F. Nourse
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008

The disturbing, forgotten history of America’s experiment with eugenics. In the 1920s and 1930s, thousands of men and women were sterilized at asylums and prisons across America. Believing that criminality and mental illness were inherited, state legislatures passed laws calling for the sterilization...
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