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Framing the Moron

by Gerald V. O'Brien, JULIE ANDERSON, Walton Schalick, Gerald O'Brien

Involuntary sterilizationUnited states, historyEugenicsHistoryFormal Social ControlMentally Disabled PersonsInstitutionalizationDehumanization

Framing the moron details the variety of dehumanizing and fear-inducing rhetoric employed by the American eugenic movement during the early twentieth century, which led to tens of thousands of innocent people being involuntarily sterilized, forced into institutions, and otherwise maltreated.

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