Research Catalog

Title

The sterilization of Carrie Buck / J. David Smith, K. Ray Nelson.

Author

Smith, J. David, 1944-

Publication

• Far Hills, New Jersey : New Horizon Press, [1989]
• ©1989

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Nelson, K. Ray
• Dr. Joseph R. Stanton Human Life Issues Library and Resource Center former owner. sch
• Value of Life Committee former owner. sch

Description

xviii, 268 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

The true story of Carrie Buck, who was considered retarded and committed to the Virginia Colony for Epileptics and the Feebleminded after her baby was born and taken away from her. In 1926 she was sterilized without her understanding or agreement, the first victim of the Virginia Compulsory Sterlization Law. This act led to the sterilization of over 50,000 American citizens without their consent, and was later cited by the Nazis as the precedent for their race hygiene programs.

Subject

• Buck, Carrie, 1906-1983 > Trials, litigation, etc
• Buck, Carrie, 1906-1983
• Buck, Carrie
• Priddy, A. S. 1865-1925
• Strode, Aubrey
• Whitehead, Irving
• Buck, Carrie, 1906-1983
• Buck v. Bell
• Mallory v. Priddy
• Involuntary sterilization > Law and legislation > United States
• Eugenics > Law and legislation > United States
• Involuntary sterilization > Law and legislation > Virginia
• Involuntary sterilization
• Sterilization, Involuntary
• History, 20th Century
• Stérilisation eugénique
• Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle
• Eugenics > Law and legislation
• Involuntary sterilization > Law and legislation
• Virginia
• United States
• Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927)

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Biography
• collective biographies.
• Trials, litigation, etc.
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-268).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 0882820451
• 9780882820453

LCCN

89061444

OCLC

• 20324453
• SCSB-10071463

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library