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1. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, “Surgical Sterilization in the United States: Prevalence and Characteristics, 1965-1995,” Vital and Health Statistics 23 no. 20 (June 1998): 1.
2.  John M. Riddle, Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992), 1-24.
3. Ibid., 43-44, 5.
4. Harry Laughlin, Eugenical Sterilization in the United States (Chicago: Psychopathic Laboratory of the Municipal Court, 1922), 396-422.
5.  Ibid.,  410, 419.
6. “The History of Vasectomy,” located at http://www.vasectomy-information.com/moreinfo/history.htm, accessed in February 2005.
7. Paul Popenoe, “The Progress of Eugenic Sterilization,” Journal of Heredity 25 no. 1 (January 1934): 19.
8. A.J. Ochsner, “Surgical Treatment of Habitual Criminals,” Journal of the American Medical Association 53 (1899): 867-868.
9. Ibid.
10. Popenoe, “The Progress of Eugenic Sterilization,” 19.
11. Philip Reilly, The Surgical Solution: A History of Involuntary Sterilization in the United States (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991), 34.
12. Daniel Kevles, In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995), 3-19.
13. Elof Axel Carlson, The Unfit: A History of a Bad Idea (Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2001), 39-55; Reilly, The Surgical Solution, 1-11.
14. Edwin Black, War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003), 63.
15. Ibid., 64-67.
16. Popenoe, 19.
17. Black, War Against the Weak, 21-61; Laughlin, Eugenical Sterilization in the United States, 96.
18. Reilly, 56-62.
19. Laughlin, 399.
20. Reilly, 62-65.
21. Ibid., 86-87.
22. J.H. Kempton, "Sterilization for Ten Million Americans," Journal of Heredity 25 no. 10 (October 1934): 415-418. Elaine Tyler May, Barren in the Promised Land: Childless Americans and the Pursuit of Happiness (New York: Basic Books, 1995), 92-93.
23. Ibid., 97, 148-165.
24. John Harley Warner and Janet A. Tighe, Major Problems in the History of American Medicine and Public Health (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001), 328.
25. Popenoe, 25.
26. Black, 7.
27. Stefan Kuhl, The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 37-52, 97-104.
28. Elaine Tyler May, Barren in the Promised Land, 111-125.
29. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, “Information For Men: Your Sterilization Operation,” (1991):1-7; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, “Information For Women: Your Sterilization Operation,”(1991):1-9.
30. James Knight and Joan Callahan, Preventing Birth: Contemporary Methods and Related Moral Controversies (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1989), 144.
31. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, “Surgical Sterilization in the United States: Prevalence and Characteristics, 1965-1995,” 1.
32. National Institutes of Health, “Vasectomy Safety,” No. 96-4094 (April 1996): 1.
33. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, “Surgical Sterilization in the United States: Prevalence and Characteristics, 1965-1995,” 1.
34. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, “Information For Men: Your Sterilization Operation,” 2-3.
35. Steven Selden, Inheriting Shame: The Story of Eugenics and Racism in America (New York: Teachers College Press, 1999), 63-83.
36. Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson, Applied Eugenics (New York: The MacMillan Company, 1933), 150-162.
37. Selden, Inheriting Shame, 22-62; Margaret Sanger, The Pivot of Civilization (New York: Brentano’s Books, 1922), 258. Martin Pernick, The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of “Defective” Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures Since 1915 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 129-141.
38. Sterilization of Criminals, Mercy Killings,” Fortune 16 (July 1937): 106.
39. Black, 409.
40. Reilly, 111-127.
41. “The Andrea Doria,” season 8, episode 10 of NBC’s Seinfeld, (December 19, 1996), located at “Seinology.com,” http://www.seinology.com/scripts/script-144.shtml, accessed in February 2005.


Sources Cited

Black, Edwin. War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003.

Carlson, Elof Axel. The Unfit: A History of a Bad Idea. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2001.

Dolan DNA Learning Center of Long Island, New York, has created the online “Image Archive of the American Eugenics Movement,” which contains hundreds of documents, photographs, and other primary sources related to American eugenics and sterilization. This website is extremely helpful as it provides numerous primary sources for this research on sterilization. The website is located at http://www.eugenicsarchive.org

Kempton, J. H. "Sterilization for Ten Million Americans." Journal of Heredity 25 no. 10 (October 1934): 415-418.

Kevles, Daniel J. In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.

Knight, James, and Callahan, Joan. Preventing Birth: Contemporary Methods and Related Moral Controversies. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1989.

Kuhl, Stefan. The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Laughlin, Harry. Eugenical Sterilization in the United States. Chicago: Psychopathic Laboratory of the Municipal Court, 1922.

May, Elaine Tyler. Barren in the Promised Land: Childless Americans and the Pursuit of Happiness. New York: Basic Books, 1995.

National Institutes of Health. “Vasectomy Safety.” No. 96-4094 (April 1996): 1.

Ochsner, A. J. “Surgical Treatment of Habitual Criminals.” Journal of the American Medical Association 53 (1899): 867-868.

Pernick, Martin. The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of “Defective” Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures Since 1915. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Popenoe, Paul, and Johnson, Roswell. Applied Eugenics. New York: MacMillan Company, 1935.

Popenoe, Paul. “The Progress of Eugenic Sterilization.” Journal of Heredity 25 no. 1 (January 1934): 19-26.

Reilly, Philip R. Involuntary Sterilization in the United States. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.

Riddle, John M. Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992.

Sanger, Margaret. The Pivot of Civilization. New York: Brentano’s, 1922.

Selden, Steven. Inheriting Shame: The Story of Eugenics and Racism in America. New York: Teachers College Press, 1999.

“Sterilization of Criminals, Mercy Killings.” Fortune. 16 (July 1937): 106.

“The Andrea Doria.” Season 8, episode 10. NBC’s Seinfeld. (December 19, 1996). Located at “Seinology.com,” http://www.seinology.com/scripts/script-144.shtml. (Accessed in February 2005).

“The History of Vasectomy.” Located at http://www.vasectomy-information.com/moreinfo/history.htm. (Accessed in February 2005).

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. “Information For Men: Your Sterilization Operation.”October 1991..

________. "Information for Women: Your Sterilization Operation." October 1991.

________. "Surgical Sterilization in the United States: Prevalence and Characteristics, 1965-1995," Vital and Health Statistic 23 no. 20 (June 1998): 1-33.

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