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2015044207 |
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DLC |
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20190729110258.0 |
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151110s2016 nyu 000 0deng |
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| LC control number |
2015044207 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781594204180 (hardback) |
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DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
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rda |
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DLC |
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MiTN |
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pcc |
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n-us--- |
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n-us-va |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
KF224.B83 |
| Item number |
C64 2016 |
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| Classification number |
344.7304/8 |
| Edition number |
23 |
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HIS036060 |
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LAW060000 |
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LAW013000 |
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bisacsh |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Cohen, Adam |
| Fuller form of name |
(Adam Seth), |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Imbeciles : |
| Remainder of title |
the Supreme Court, American eugenics, and the sterilization of Carrie Buck / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Adam Cohen. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Penguin Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2016. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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402 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |
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illustrations : |
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25 cm |
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text |
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txt |
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rdacontent |
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unmediated |
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n |
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rdamedia |
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volume |
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nc |
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rdacarrier |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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"One of America's great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court's infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of "undesirable" citizens the law of the land New York Times bestselling author Adam Cohen tells the story in Imbeciles of one of the darkest moments in the American legal tradition: the Supreme Court's decision to champion eugenic sterilization for the greater good of the country. In 1927, when the nation was caught up in eugenic fervor, the justices allowed Virginia to sterilize Carrie Buck, a perfectly normal young woman, for being an "imbecile." It is a story with many villains, from the superintendent of the Dickensian Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded who chose Carrie for sterilization to the former Missouri agriculture professor and Nazi sympathizer who was the nation's leading advocate for eugenic sterilization. But the most troubling actors of all were the eight Supreme Court justices who were in the majority--including William Howard Taft, the former president; Louis Brandeis, the legendary progressive; and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., America's most esteemed justice, who wrote the decision urging the nation to embark on a program of mass eugenic sterilization"-- |
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Provided by publisher. |
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| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Buck, Carrie, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1906-1983 |
| General subdivision |
Trials, litigation, etc. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Involuntary sterilization |
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Law and legislation |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Eugenics |
| General subdivision |
Law and legislation |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Involuntary sterilization |
| General subdivision |
Law and legislation |
| Geographic subdivision |
Virginia. |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. |
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bisacsh |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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LAW / Legal History. |
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bisacsh |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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LAW / Civil Rights. |
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bisacsh |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED |
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| Uncontrolled term |
Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927) |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY |
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| Relationship information |
Online version: |
| Main entry heading |
Cohen, Adam (Adam Seth), author. |
| Title |
Imbeciles |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication |
New York : Penguin Press, 2016 |
| International Standard Book Number |
9781101980835 |
| Record control number |
(DLC) 2015044842 |
| 948 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC); SERIES PART DESIGNATOR (RLIN) |
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u604115 |
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KF224 .B83 C64 2016 |
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