{"product_id":"three-generations-no-imbeciles-eugenics-the-supreme-court-and-buck-v-bell-9781421443188","title":"Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck V. Bell","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eThis updated edition includes a new afterword that identifies the role the \u003ci\u003eBuck\u003c\/i\u003e story plays in the Supreme Court's review of emerging state laws that seek to limit access to abortion.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Three generations of imbeciles are enough.\" Few lines from U.S. Supreme Court opinions are as memorable as this declaration by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. in the landmark 1927 case \u003ci\u003eBuck v. Bell\u003c\/i\u003e. The ruling allowed states to forcibly sterilize residents in order to prevent \"feebleminded and socially inadequate\" people from having children. It is the only time the Supreme Court endorsed surgery as a tool of government policy. Though \u003ci\u003eBuck\u003c\/i\u003e set the stage for more than sixty thousand involuntary sterilizations in the United States and was cited at the Nuremberg trials in defense of Nazi sterilization experiments, it has never been overturned. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt has been more than a decade since Paul A. Lombardo's classic \u003ci\u003eThree Generations, No Imbeciles\u003c\/i\u003e first exposed the \u003ci\u003eBuck\u003c\/i\u003e case's fraudulent roots. During that time, several of the remaining twentieth-century eugenic sterilization statutes have finally been repealed, and reparations to sterilization survivors have been paid in two states. Discussion of the \u003ci\u003eBuck \u003c\/i\u003ecase has once again engendered controversy in the courts. The Wisconsin Supreme Court invoked \u003ci\u003eBuck\u003c\/i\u003e most recently in a debate over the power of the state to enact restrictions on citizens and businesses during the COVID-19 crisis, and the US Supreme Court cited \u003ci\u003eThree Generations, No Imbeciles\u003c\/i\u003e in arguments over the newest state laws seeking to limit access to abortion. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis updated edition collects and analyzes information related to events and trends discussed in the earlier volume and includes a completely new afterword, \"Looking Back at \u003ci\u003eBuck\u003c\/i\u003e,\" that explains how the case remains a key feature of public discourse about disability, government power, and reproductive rights. It also presents restored copies of the letters of Carrie Buck and points readers to an online archive of legal documents, images, and other material relevant to the case. The book remains a key resource for law school faculties, legal and medical historians, and anyone with an interest in the history of reproduction in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Startling.\"--Reason\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Compelling and well-researched . . . \u003ci\u003eThree Generations, No Imbeciles\u003c\/i\u003e gives Carrie Buck's long-untold story the attention it deserves.\"--Harvard Law Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThree Generations\u003c\/i\u003e provides valuable, new, and timely revelations for students and professional scholars across many disciplines.\"--Disability Studies Quarterly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Meticulously detailed and researched history . . . this book is enjoyable, thought provoking, and troubling in equal measure. I highly recommend it.\"--Psychiatric Services\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul A. Lombardo\u003c\/b\u003e is a Regents' Professor and the Bobby Lee Cook Professor of Law at Georgia State University. The author of \u003ci\u003eA Century of Eugenics in America: From the Indiana Experiment to the Human Genome Era\u003c\/i\u003e, he has played a key role, as both a historian and a lawyer, in the movement to solicit state apologies and legislative denunciations of past eugenics laws.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50485275361554,"sku":"9781421443188","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b0516772-a2d5-4bdf-9a75-f532cc7b9d8e.jpg?v=1730401424","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/three-generations-no-imbeciles-eugenics-the-supreme-court-and-buck-v-bell-9781421443188","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}