Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America

by Alexandra Minna Stern

Book Overview

First edition, Winner of the Arthur J. Viseltear Prize, American Public Health Association

With an emphasis on the American West, Eugenic Nation explores the long and unsettled history of eugenics in the United States. This expanded second edition includes shocking details demonstrating that eugenics continues to inform institutional and reproductive injustice. Alexandra Minna Stern draws on recently uncovered historical records...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520285069
• ISBN13: 9780520285064
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"