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Ethically Defective

Paul Lauritzen

Three Generations, No Imbeciles Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell Paul A. Lombardo John Hopkins University Press, $29.95, 384 pp.   In Reckless Hands Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics Victoria F. Nourse W. W. Norton, $24.95, 256 pp.  In 1924, Carrie Buck was seventeen years old, unwed, and pregnant. The man who had raped (...)


 

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