In reckless hands : Skinner v. Oklahoma and the near triumph of American eugenics / Victoria F. Nourse.
2008
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Title
In reckless hands : Skinner v. Oklahoma and the near triumph of American eugenics / Victoria F. Nourse.
Published
New York : W. W. Norton & Co., [2008]
Copyright
©2008
Call Number
KF224.S486 N68 2008
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780393065299 (hardcover)
0393065294 (hardcover)
0393065294 (hardcover)
Description
240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)181139411
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [179]-228) and index.
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Table of Contents
Prologue: An Intellectual Seduction
13
1
The Justice, the Governor, and the Dictator
17
2
The Brain Trust
39
3
Thoroughbreds
55
4
Heat and Love
65
5
White Trash
75
6
Skinner's Trial
89
7
The Supreme Court in 1937
111
8
Science in a Foreign Mirror: 1937-1941
121
9
Deciding Skinner
135
Epilogue: Failures of Modern Memory
161
Acknowledgments and Method
175
Notes
179
Index
229