Reviews

Lombardo P. , Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008): at 246–247.

Id., at 278.

Lombardo P. A. , “Eugenical Sterilization in Virginia: Aubrey Strode and the Case of Buck v. Bell,“University of Virginia (University of Virginia, Ph.D. dissertation, 1982); “Involuntary Sterilization in Virginia: From Buck v. Bell to Poe v. Lynchburg,” Developments in Mental Health Law 3 (1983): at 13–21; “Settlement of Poe v. Lynchburg Ends Sterilization Era,” Developments in Mental Health Law 5 (1984): at 18; “Three Generations, No Imbeciles; New Light on Buck v. Bell”, New York University Law Review 60 (1985): at 30–62; “Miscegenation, Eugenics, and Racism: Historical Footnotes to Loving v. Virginia”, University of California at Davis Law Review 21 (1988): at 421–452; “Medicine, Eugenics, and the Supreme Court: From Coercive Sterilization to Reproductive Freedom”, Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 13 (1996): at 1–25; “Pedigrees, Propaganda, Paranoia: Family Studies in Historical Context”, Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions 21 (2001): at 247–255; “Carrie Buck's Pedigree”, Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine 138 (2001): at 278–282; “The American Breed: Nazi Eugenics and the Origin of the Pioneer Fund”, Albany Law Review 65 (2002): at 743–830; “Taking Eugenics Seriously: Three Generations of ??? Are Enough?” Florida State University Law Review 30 (2002): at 191–218; “Facing Carrie Buck”, Hastings Center Report 33 (2003): at 14–17; and, with Door G. M. , “Eugenics, Medical Education, and the Public Health Service: Another Perspective on Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment”, Bulletin of the History of Medicine 80 (2006): at 291–316.

See, for example, Black E. , War against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race (New York: Four Walls, Eight Windows, 2003).

Smith v. Board of Examiners of Feeble-minded, 88 A. 963, 965 (W.J. 1913).

See Lombardo , supra note 1, at 293–294.

Sheldon Novick's otherwise fine Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes is one such example, in which Carrie Buck barely rates a footnote.

Black's Edwin War against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race falls into this category. Buck is usually with the decision in Dred Scott, the “separate but equal” ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson, and the Korematsu case upholding the World War II internment of Japanese-Americans in discussions of the court's low points.

See, for example, Novick S. M. , Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes (Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1989); and Black, supra note 4.

See Lombardo , supra note 1.

Holmes O. W. , Speeches (Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1934): at 101.

Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. at 207 (1927).

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Holmes O. W. , “Letter of May 19, 1927”, in Peabody J. , ed., The Holmes-Einstein Letters: Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Lewis Einstein 1903–1935 (New York: MacMillan, 1964): at 267.

Holmes O. W. , “Letter of April 29, 1927”, in Howe M. D. , ed., Holmes-Laski Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Harold J. Laski 1916–1935 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953): at 938.

Id., at 941.

Holmes O. W. , “Gas-Stokers' Strike”, American Law Review 7 (1873): 582.

Holmes O. W. , “Letter of May 12, 1927”, in Howe M. D. , ed., Holmes-Laski Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Harold J. Laski 1916 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953): at 942.

Holmes O. W. , “Letter of July 21, 1925”, Tien Hsia Monthly (October 1935), at 251.

That suit, Poe v. Lynchburg Training School and Hospital, 518 F. Supp. 789 (W.D. Va 1981), (the successor to the Virginia Colony), would seek not money damages, but a declaration that Virginia's sterilizations had been unconstitutional and that the state notify all those who had been sterilized.

Vaughn v. Ruoff, 253 F.2d 1124 at 1129 (8th Cir. 2001).

See Lombardo , supra note 1, at 278.

Dalesio E. P. , “N.C. Eugenics Victims Could Begin Getting Compensation”, June 24, 2009, available at <http://hamptonroads.com/2009/> (last visited June 24, 2009).