Title:
Inherited Realities: Eugenics, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Buck v. Bell
Inherited Realities: Eugenics, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Buck v. Bell
| dc.contributor.author | Akin, John Warren | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2009-06-24T14:32:25Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2009-06-24T14:32:25Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
| dc.description | The Tower is an official publication of the Georgia Tech Board of Student Publications and is sponsored by the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program and the Price Gilbert Memorial Library System. This article is from Volume 1, Issue 2. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | In this paper, an analysis of the records of involuntary sterilizations on black patients in the state of Georgia is performed, to study the intent versus the outcome of the Buck v. Bell decision. An analysis of the legal intent of the opinion's author, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., is also a major component of the paper. The study found that while the intent of the opinion placed it within Constitutional bounds, in implementation it pre-supposed far too high a degree of literacy of the population it was meant to apply to. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program ; Price Gilbert Memorial Library System. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Akin, J. (2009). Inherited Realities: Eugenics, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Buck v. Bell. The Tower, 1(2). Retrieved June 24, 2009, from http://ejournals.library.gatech.edu/tower/article/view/33 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/28600 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
| dc.publisher | Georgia Institute of Technology | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | The Tower. Volume 1, Issue 2 | en |
| dc.subject | History | en |
| dc.subject | Supreme Court | en |
| dc.subject | Eugenics | en |
| dc.subject | Sterilization | en |
| dc.title | Inherited Realities: Eugenics, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Buck v. Bell | en |
| dc.type | Text | |
| dc.type.genre | Article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program | |
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