States of eugenics: Institutions and practices of compulsory sterilization in California

Reframing Rights: Bioconstitutionalism in the Genetic Age

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 29-58

  Wellerstein, Alex ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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