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This book is the first comprehensive analysis of eugenics in North America focused on the second half of the twentieth century. Based on new research, Randall Hansen and Desmond King show why eugenic sterilization policies persisted after the 1940s in the United States and Canada. Through extensive archival research, King and Hansen show how both superintendents at homes for the 'feebleminded' and pro-sterilization advocates repositioned themselves after 1945 to avoid the taint of Nazi eugenics. Drawing on interviews with victims of sterilization and primary documents, this book traces the post-1940s development of eugenic policy and shows that both eugenic arguments and committed eugenicists informed population, welfare, and birth control policy in postwar America. In providing revisionist histories of the choice movement, the anti-population growth movement, and the Great Society programs, this book contributes to public policy and political and intellectual history.

Eugenics --- Sterilization (Birth control) --- Sexual sterilization --- Sterilization, Sexual --- Voluntary sterilization --- Contraception --- Generative organs --- Infertility --- Homiculture --- Race improvement --- Euthenics --- Heredity --- Involuntary sterilization --- History --- Surgery

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During the first half of the twentieth century, supporters of the eugenics movement offered an image of a racially transformed America by curtailing the reproduction of "unfit" members of society. Through institutionalization, compulsory sterilization, the restriction of immigration and marriages, and other methods, eugenicists promised to improve the population-a policy agenda that was embraced by many leading intellectuals and public figures. But Catholic activists and thinkers across the United States opposed many of these measures, asserting that "every man, even a lunatic, is an image of God, not a mere animal." In An Image of God, Sharon Leon examines the efforts of American Catholics to thwart eugenic policies, illuminating the ways in which Catholic thought transformed the public conversation about individual rights, the role of the state, and the intersections of race, community, and family. Through an examination of the broader questions raised in this debate, Leon casts new light on major issues that remain central in American political life today: the institution of marriage, the role of government, and the separation of church and state. This is essential reading in the history of religion, science, politics, and human rights.

Eugenics --- Religion and science --- Sterilization (Birth control) --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- History --- Religious aspects --- Catholic Church. --- Catholic Church --- eugenics, institutionalization, compulsory sterilization, immigration, marriage, gender, catholicism, religion, spirituality, christianity, state power, race, disability, community, family, public health, birth control, catholic church, history, reproduction, protest, nonfiction, mental illness, retardation, developmental delays, downs syndrome, bioethics, genetic engineering, biology, science.

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Castration and castrati have always been facets of western culture, from myth and legend to law and theology, from eunuchs guarding harems to the seventeenth and eighteenth-century castrati singers. Metaphoric castration pervades a number of medieval literary genres, particularly the Old French fabliaux - exchanges of power predicated upon the exchange or absence of sexual desire signified by genitalia - but the plain, literal act of castration and its implications are often overlooked. This collection explores this often taboo subject and its implications for cultural mores and custom in Western Europe, seeking to demystify and demythologize castration. Its subjects include archaeological studies of eunuchs; historical accounts of castration in trials of combat; the mutilation of political rivals in medieval Wales; Anglo-Saxon and Frisian legal and literary examples of castration as punishment; castration as comedy in the Old French fabliaux; the prohibition against genital mutilation in hagiography; and early-modern anxieties about punitive castration enacted on the Elizabethan stage. The introduction reflects on these topics in the context of arguably the most well-known victim of castration in the middle ages, Abelard. Larissa Tracy is Associate Professor of Medieval Literature at Longwood University. Contributors: Larissa Tracy, Kathryn Reusch, Shaun Tougher, Jack Collins, Rolf H. Bremmer Jr, Jay Paul Gates, Charlene M. Eska, Mary A. Valante, Anthony Adams, Mary E. Leech, Jed Chandler, Ellen Lorraine Friedrich, Robert L.A. Clark, Karin Sellberg, Lena Wånggren

Literature, Medieval --- Castration in literature. --- Castration. --- Civilization, Medieval. --- History and criticism. --- Civilization, Medieval --- Medieval civilization --- Middle Ages --- Civilization --- Chivalry --- Renaissance --- Emasculation --- Gonadectomy --- Animal contraception --- Male contraception --- Sterilization (Birth control) --- Testis --- Veterinary surgery --- History --- Surgery --- Abelard. --- Archaeology. --- Castrati Singers. --- Cultural Mores. --- Cultural mores. --- Culture. --- Custom. --- Demystify. --- Demythologize. --- Eunuchs. --- Gender Studies. --- Genitalia. --- Harems. --- Law. --- Literal castration. --- Literary Motifs. --- Medieval Castration. --- Metaphoric castration. --- Middle Ages. --- Old French Fabliaux. --- Old French fabliaux. --- Punishment. --- Taboo subject. --- Western Europe. --- Eunuchs --- History.

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Clinical Reproductive Medicine and Surgery offers a succinct overview of both the medical and surgical management of reproductive disorders, as well as coverage of associated imaging modalities. The book includes chapters on major reproductive endocrinology and infertility issues such as polycystic ovary syndrome and amenorrhea, management of endometriosis and fibroids (including interventional radiology), imaging modalities such as ultrasonography and sonohysterography, preservation of fertility, and recurrent pregnancy loss. Residents, fellows, and practitioners interested in reproductive endocrinology and infertility will find this focused and practical text invaluable.

Gynecology. --- Medicine. --- Reproductive health. --- Reproductive Medicine. --- Urology. --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Gynecology & Obstetrics --- Generative organs --- Generative organs, Female --- Infertility. --- Human reproduction. --- Reproductive health --- Diseases. --- Surgery. --- Surgery --- Methodology. --- Human reproduction --- Human reproductive health --- Human reproductive medicine --- Reproductive medicine --- Female generative organs --- Female generative tract --- Female genital tract --- Female genitalia --- Female reproductive system --- Female reproductive tract --- Gynecologic surgery --- Gynecology, Operative --- Operative gynecology --- Surgical gynecology --- Involuntary childlessness --- Sterility --- Sterility in humans --- Health aspects --- Reproductive medicine. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Health --- Human physiology --- Reproduction --- Reproductive rights --- Childlessness --- Fertility, Human --- Sterilization (Birth control) --- Gynecology --- Theriogenology --- Diseases --- Genitourinary organs --- Gynaecology --- Gynecology .