One of America's great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court's infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of "undesirable" citizens the law of the land New York Times bestselling author Adam Cohen tells the story in Imbeciles of one of the darkest moments in the American legal tradition: the Supreme Court's decision to champion eugenic sterilization for the greater good of the country. In 1927, when the nation was caught up in eugenic fervor, the justices allowed Virginia to sterilize Carrie Buck, a perfectly normal young woman, for being an "imbecile." It is a story with many villains, from the superintendent of the Dickensian Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded who chose Carrie for sterilization to the former Missouri agriculture professor and Nazi sympathizer who was the nation's leading advocate for eugenic sterilization. But the most troubling actors of all were the eight Supreme Court justices who were in the majority - including William Howard Taft, the former president; Louis Brandeis, the legendary progressive; and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., America's most esteemed justice, who wrote the decision urging the nation to embark on a program of mass eugenic sterilization. Exposing this tremendous injustice--which led to the sterilization of 70,000 Americans--Imbeciles overturns cherished myths and reappraises heroic figures in its relentless pursuit of the truth. With the precision of a legal brief and the passion of a front-page exposé, Cohen's Imbeciles is an unquestionable triumph of American legal and social history, an ardent accusation against these acclaimed men and our own optimistic faith in progress.
With his wife, Mary Crellin, Langdon Down founded the Normansfield Training Institution at Teddington in the south of London in 1868, and relocated there. Normansfield was a private, residential facility for idiot and imbecile children ...
. . As Lombardo conclusively demonstrates, those who sought to have Buck sterilized did not let the facts get in the way of the story the law required them to tell."—Commonweal "Heart-breaking and riveting . . .
This book includes a wonderful collection of jokes, songs, poems, and recipes that can immediately be put to use by any Imbecile, big or small.
“I’ll be my own testament to the mountains of fudge I’ve moved, the rivers of chocolate I’ve forded, the forests of candy I’ve cleared and the cities of pie I’ve vanquished.” So muses our hero ReJean Zartro, Social Worker Un ...
The eighteen short stories that chronicle his adventures - chock-full of feces, urine, and pus - would likely not be picked up by Disney-Pixar for an uplifting, animal-related Summer release.
Un roman héroï-comique, aux marges du loufoque et du grave, avec pour décor La Nouvelle-Orléans.
The four short stories that chronicle his adventures - chock-full of feces, urine, and pus - would likely not be picked up by Disney-Pixar for an uplifting, animal-related Summer release.
Lunatics, Imbeciles and Idiots: A History of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland
"I aim to kill every Indian who crosses my path, so help me God!" swears Lewis Wetzel.Part 2 continues the story of the Native American Indian warriors fighting a bloody struggle to stop the flood of immigrants pouring into their land.
Idiots, Imbeciles and Morons