Against Their Will: North Carolina's Sterilization Program and the campaign for reparations
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (889 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0941062163 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 244 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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A team of reporters combined original research and interviews with victims with work done by historians Johanna Schoen and Paul Lombardo to produce a detailed expose of the eugenics program. Children. This award-winning series in the Winston-Salem Journal led to an apology from the North Carolina governor and the first legislation in the nation seeking to compensate victims of eugenics, or involuntary sterilization. After the series was published, the Journal's editorial page began a campaign to bring attention to the needs of surviving victims of the program. Sisters. Unwed mothers. Some were blind or mentally retarded. For more than 40 years North Carolina ran one of the nation's largest and most aggressive sterilization programs. Toward the end they were mostly black and poor. Now available as a book for the first time, Against Their Will has draw
---Library Journal, March 9, 2012The Winston-Salem Journal ran a series of articles on eugenics, prompting official apologies and initial legislative efforts aimed at compensating victims. An important, heartbreaking addition to writings on medical ethics and the history of medicine. A must-have for social issues collections, Against Their Will is highly recommended. Now as North Carolina is about to pay reparations to those who suffered from forced sterilization, their story is both chilling and an invaluable lesson in state abuse of power that must be remembered, lest it be repeated. Readers see what happens when medical decisions are made without informed consent by bureaucracies using fault
Against their Will Against Their WillFreedom of choice, the right to decide for yourself what you want to do to your body, the right to live your life as you please are some of the violations and injustices done to over 7600 people living in North Carolina and many in other states too. If you are not smart, considered feebleminded, retarded, promiscuous, unfit to care for yourself or anyone else, you fit into the mold, picture fr. Haunting times, haunting investigation Sheila Deeth I read mostly fiction but every once in a while a non-fiction book comes along that I can't resist, and Against their will is just such a one. I knew nothing of North Carolina's sterilization program as I started to read, and I want to tell myself these things could never happen now, but I'm not sure I can. "Experts" argue the case for sterilization of individuals in these historically accurate documents. Their. "Insightful and absolutely shocking" according to Mary Lavers (in Canada). Against Their Will examines the horrors of the forced sterilization program of North Carolina from the 1920's until the 1970's. Although the majority of states in the U.S. had, at one time, policies of forced sterilization for those considered "dangerous, ill or feeble-minded," North Carolina stands out for expanding their program when most states were ending them, after the atrocities of Nazi medical experimen