Eugenic nation : faults and frontiers of better breeding in modern America /
Stern, Alexandra.
Eugenic nation : faults and frontiers of better breeding in modern America / Alexandra Minna Stern. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005. - xiv, 347 p. : ill. 24 cm. - American crossroads ; 17 .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-322) and index.
Introduction -- Race betterment and tropical medicine in imperial San Francisco -- Quarantine and eugenic gate-keeping on the U.S-Mexico border -- Instituting eugenics in California -- California's eugenic landscapes -- Centering eugenics on the family -- Contesting hereditarianism.
0520244435 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520244443 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2004021041
Eugenics--History.--United States
Eugenics--History.--California
HQ755.5.U5 / S84 2005
363.9/2/09794
Eugenic nation : faults and frontiers of better breeding in modern America / Alexandra Minna Stern. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005. - xiv, 347 p. : ill. 24 cm. - American crossroads ; 17 .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-322) and index.
Introduction -- Race betterment and tropical medicine in imperial San Francisco -- Quarantine and eugenic gate-keeping on the U.S-Mexico border -- Instituting eugenics in California -- California's eugenic landscapes -- Centering eugenics on the family -- Contesting hereditarianism.
0520244435 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520244443 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2004021041
Eugenics--History.--United States
Eugenics--History.--California
HQ755.5.U5 / S84 2005
363.9/2/09794