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.