Eugenic nation : faults and frontiers of better breeding in modern America / Alexandra Minna Stern.
Series: American crossroads ; 17Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.Description: xiv, 347 p. : ill. 24 cmISBN:- 0520244435 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0520244443 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 363.9/2/09794 22
- HQ755.5.U5 S84 2005
Contents:
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.
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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.