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rather than an
increase in the
occurrence of
mental disabilities. For "
feebleminded" children,
which broadly connoted mental deficiency of
various forms...
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Booker International Prize. La débil
mental (2014) was
translated as
Feebleminded (Charco Press). Her
works have been
translated into more than ten languages...
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Compulsory sterilization, also
known as
forced or
coerced sterilization,
refers to any government-mandated
program to
involuntarily sterilize a specific...
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while Buck was an
inmate of the
Virginia State Colony for
Epileptics and
Feebleminded, took
place under the
authority of the
Sterilization Act of 1924, part...
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Virginia Colony for
Epileptics to the
Virginia Colony for
Epileptics and
Feebleminded in 1914. Priddy, a
central figure in the
legalization of
forced sterilization...
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committed to the
Virginia Colony for
Epileptics and
Feebleminded on the
grounds of
feeblemindedness,
incorrigible behavior, and promiscuity. Her commitment...
- "
feebleminded", dependent, neglected, or "delinquent" to
state guardianship.
County probate judges were
given the
ability to
commit any "
feebleminded"...
- were
considered to be feeble-minded. In fact
being diagnosed with "
feeblemindedness" (German: Schwachsinn) was the main
label approved in
forced sterilization...
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American Institutions for
Idiotic and
Feebleminded Persons 1906:
American ****ociation for the
Study of the
Feebleminded 1933:
American ****ociation on Mental...
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began soon
after the
offense became codified, in a
paper titled "The
Feebleminded Motorist" (1942) and has been
explored again in an
article titled "The...
