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    Sterilization of Carrie Buck: Was She Feebleminded of Society's Pawn?

    By David Smith

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    Now, the truth about one of America's most shameful moments is revealed in The Sterilization of Carrie Buck.

    On October 27, 1927, 21-year-old Carrie Buck was sterilized without her understanding or consent - and with the blessings of the United States Supreme Court.

    Through 1972, this act led to the sterilization of over 50,000 American citizens without their consent, and was the forerunner of the Hereditary Health Law which initiated the slaughter of millions of Jews, Catholics, homosexuals, Gypsies and others opposing the goals of Nazi Germany. At the Nuremberg War Trials, the Carrie Buck case was cited as the precedent for the Nazi race hygiene programs.

    Here is the shattering chronicle of Carrie Buck's life: her lonely childhood, her harassment at school, the birth of her child, her commitment to the same institution as her mother, the trial at which she was robbed of her ability to have children, and the final decision by Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes that "three generations of imbeciles are enough.", essentially because she was young, poor and powerless.

    The warning of Carrie Buck's tragedy remains with us even today.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew Horizon Press
    Release dateJun 13, 2016
    ISBN9780882825366
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    David Smith

    David Smith has over 48 years at CABI as Preservation Officer, Curator and latterly Director of Biological Resources and is now retired with the honour of being a CABI Emeritus Fellow. Having a long history of managing a living fungal collection; developing and managing projects on conservation and use of microorganisms; and microbiological regulatory environment particularly, the Nagoya protocol. In past roles as President of the World Federation for Culture Collections, President of the European Culture Collection's Organisation and the UK Federation of Culture Collections he has visited collections in 34 countries and helped set up and enhance collections in 19 countries. He has presented over 160 conference papers and has over 230 publications including 80 peer reviewed papers, 4 books and over 40 book chapters.

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      Carrie was my Great Aunt she married my Great Uncle Charlie Detamore after her first husband past away. I knew them when they lived in a very small one room "shack." I was young and didn't understand how people could live in a small shed like house with no water or bathroom. Now that I am older and learned more about her story and my uncles I have both pity and admiration to how people went through such hard things in their life and still kept trying to take care of things.This book shows me how crazy government and doctors can get at times leaving us "normal" people to pick up the mess left behind.