Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Race Betterment and Tropical Medicine in Imperial San Francisco 2. Quarantine and Eugenic Gatekeeping on the U.S.-Mexican Border 3. Instituting Eugenics in California 4. California's Eugenic Landscapes 5. Centering Eugenics on the Family 6. Contesting Hereditarianism: Reassessing the 1960s Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

Alexandra Minna Stern is Associate Director, Center for the History of Medicine, and Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and American Culture at the University of Michigan. She is coeditor, with Howard Markel, of Formative Years: Children's Health in the United States, 1880-2000 (2002).

Reviews

"A masterful work that offers a bold and provocative argument about the impact of eugenics on California and the nation as a whole. Stern's analyses of U.S.-Mexico immigration policy and 'eugenic landscapes' are particularly innovative."