Montgomery, Alabama, 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend intends to make a difference, especially in her African American community. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she hopes to help women shape their destinies,...
Eugenics
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Author:Perkins-Valdez, DolenSummary: - Author:Brunner, JohnSummary:
The brilliant 1969 Hugo Award-winning novel from John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar, now included with a foreword by Bruce Sterling. Norman Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporations....
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Author:Stahnisch, FrankSummary:From 1928 to 1972, the Alberta Sexual Sterilization Act, Canada's lengthiest eugenic policy, shaped social discourses and medical practice in the province. Sterilization programs--particularly involuntary sterilization programs--were...
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Author:Porter, Theodore M.Summary:In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most important...
- Author:Chesterton, G. K.Summary:
This prophetic volume counters the intellectual nihilism of Nietzsche, while simultaneously rebuking Western notions of progress, biological or otherwise. Chesterton expands his criticism of eugenics into what he calls "a more...
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Author:Wheatley, ThelmaSummary:The shocking true story of the institutionalization and abuse of children and adults with intellectual and physical handicaps in Canada’s oldest provincial institution in Orillia, Ontario. Daisy Lumsden and her family were such victims...
