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 | In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics (1st Edition) by Victoria F. Nourse Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2008 ISBN-10: 0-393-06529-4 / 0393065294 ISBN-13: 978-0-393-06529-9 / 9780393065299 The disturbing, forgotten history of America’s experiment with eugenics. In the 1920s and 1930s, thousands of men and women were sterilized at asylums and prisons across America. Believing that criminality and mental illness were inherited, state legislatures passed laws calling for the sterilizatio | |