Segregation's Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia

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University of Virginia Press, Oct 24, 2008 - History - 297 pages
"Blending social, intellectual, legal, medical, gender, and cultural history, Segregation's Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia examines how eugenic theory and practice bolstered Virginia's various cultures of segregation - rich from poor, sick from well, able from disabled, male from female, and black and Native American from white. Of interest to historians, educators, biologists, physicians, and social workers, this study reminds readers that science is socially constructed."--BOOK JACKET.
 

Contents

You Are Your Brothers Keeper
1
Virginias Protoeugenicists Survey Humanity
21
Progressive Era Eugenics in Virginia
48
Academics and Eugenics
70
Virginia Controls the Feebleminded
107
Eugenics and the Race Question
137
Persistent Eugenics in Virginia
167
Eugenics Massive Resistance and Punitive Sterilization
195
I Never Knew What Theyd Done with Me
221
Notes
231
Bibliography
269
Index
289
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Gregory Michael Dorr is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Diversity in Science, Technology, and Medicine at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.