Thoughts on the changing meaning of disability: New eugenics or new wholeness?
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- J. David Smith, Professor, Department Chair (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: In 1927, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a Virginia law in the case that came to be known as Buck v. Bell ( 1927). Carrie Buck was the first person to be eugenically sterilized under the authority of that law. The law allowed a state to sterilize people diagnosed as incompetent and deemed likely to genetically transmit physical, psychological, or social disabilities to their offspring.
Thoughts on the changing meaning of disability: New eugenics or new wholeness?
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Remedial and Special Education, 20, 131-133
- Language: English
- Date: 1999
- Keywords
- People with disabilities, Eugenics, Laws