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In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN13:
9780393065299
$45.00
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An account of the controversial early twentieth-century effort to sterilize criminals and the mentally ill profiles the activities at Oklahoma's McAlester prison, the trial of Jack Skinner, and the influence of Nazi Germany's eugenics practices on the outcome of an ensuing Supreme Court case.
- | Author: Victoria F. Nourse
- | Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- | Publication Date: July 17, 2008
- | Number of Pages: 240 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 0393065294
- | ISBN-13: 9780393065299
- Author:
- Victoria F. Nourse
- Publisher:
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Publication Date:
- July 17, 2008
- Number of pages:
- 240 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 0393065294
- ISBN-13:
- 9780393065299