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Breeding Contempt

Breeding Contempt

The History of Coerced Sterilization

in the United States

MARK A. LARGENT

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS

NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY, AND LONDON

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Largent, Mark A.

Breeding contempt : the history of coerced sterilization in the

United States / Mark A. Largent.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978–0–8135–4182–2 (hardcover : alk. paper)—ISBN 978–0–8135–4183–9

(pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Involuntary sterilization—United States—History.

2. Eugenics—United States—History. I. Title.

HV4989.L275 2007

363.9'7—dc22

2007000029

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