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Part Four: Francis Galton: Inventor of Eugenics

Behind the Bastards

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Buck v. Bell Upholds Sterilization

Robert Evans recounts Virginia’s successful eugenics law, the Supreme Court’s Buck v. Bell decision, and Oliver Wendell Holmes’s infamous justification.

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