Eugenic nation : faults and frontiers of better breeding in modern America / Alexandra Minna Stern.

  • Stern, Alexandra Minna, 1966-
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[2005], ©2005
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Berkeley : : University of California Press, [2005], ©2005.

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xiv, 347 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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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.

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    History of Medicine
    JL.6.AA9
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  • 0520244435
  • 0520244443