{"product_id":"three-generations-no-imbeciles-9781421443188","title":"Three Generations No Imbeciles","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis updated edition includes a new afterword that identifies the role the Buck story plays in the Supreme Court's review of emerging state laws that seek to limit access to abortion.   Three generations of imbeciles are enough. Few lines from U.S. Supreme Court opinions are as memorable as this declaration by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. in the landmark 1927 case Buck v. Bell. The ruling allowed states to forcibly sterilize residents in order to prevent feebleminded and socially inadequate people from having children. It is the only time the Supreme Court endorsed surgery as a tool of government policy. Though Buck set the stage for more than sixty thousand involuntary sterilizations in the United States and was cited at the Nuremberg trials in defense of Nazi sterilization experiments, it has never been overturned. It has been more than a decade since Paul A. Lombardo's classic Three Generations, No Imbeciles first exposed the Buck case's fraudulent roots. During that time, seve\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface to Updated Edition\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003ePrologue: The Expert Witness\u003cbr\u003e1. Problem Families\u003cbr\u003e2. Sex and Surgery\u003cbr\u003e3. The Pedigree Factory\u003cbr\u003e4. Studying Sterilization\u003cbr\u003e5. The Mallory Case\u003cbr\u003e6. Laughlin's Book\u003cbr\u003e7. A Virginia Sterilization Law\u003cbr\u003e8. Choosing Carrie Buck\u003cbr\u003e9. Carrie Buck versus Dr. Priddy\u003cbr\u003e10. Defenseless\u003cbr\u003e11. On Appeal: \u003ci\u003eBuck v. Bell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e12. In the Supreme Court\u003cbr\u003e13. Reactions and Repercussions\u003cbr\u003e14. After the Supreme Court\u003cbr\u003e15. Sterilizing Germans\u003cbr\u003e16. \u003ci\u003eSkinner v. Oklahoma\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e17. \u003ci\u003eBuck\u003c\/i\u003e, at Nuremberg and After\u003cbr\u003e18. Rediscovering \u003ci\u003eBuck\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: Reconsidering \u003ci\u003eBuck\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfterword: Looking Back at \u003ci\u003eBuck\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eAppendix A: The Supreme Court Opinion in\u003ci\u003e Buck v. Bell\u003c\/i\u003e, by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.\u003cbr\u003eAppendix B: Virginia Eugenical Sterilization Act, 1924\u003cbr\u003eAppendix C: Laws and Sterilizations by State\u003cbr\u003eAppendix D: Carrie Buck's letters\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eA Note on Sources\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408145031511,"sku":"9781421443188","price":26.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421443188.jpg?v=1730501750","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/three-generations-no-imbeciles-9781421443188","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}