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Carrie Buck, the Glossary

Carrie Elizabeth Buck (July 3, 1906 – January 28, 1983) was the plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell, after having been ordered to undergo compulsory sterilization for purportedly being "feeble-minded" by her foster parents after their nephew raped and impregnated her.^[1]

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Eugenics in the United States

A. S. Priddy

Albert Sidney Priddy (December 7, 1865 – January 13, 1925) was an American physician and politician.

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Adoption in the United States

In the United States, adoption is the process of creating a legal parent–child relationship between a child and a parent who was not automatically recognized as the child's parent at birth.

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American Experience season 30

Season thirty of the television program American Experience aired on the PBS network in the United States on January 9, 2018 and concluded on October 16, 2018.

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Appendicitis

Appendicitis is inflammation of the appendix.

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Aubrey E. Strode

Aubrey Ellis Strode (October 2, 1873 – May 17, 1946) was an American lawyer and politician.

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Buck v. Bell

Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927), is a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court, written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., in which the Court ruled that a state statute permitting compulsory sterilization of the unfit, including the intellectually disabled, "for the protection and health of the state" did not violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Carrie Buck and Buck v. Bell are eugenics in the United States.

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C-SPAN

Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN) is an American cable and satellite television network, created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a nonprofit public service.

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Charlottesville, Virginia

Charlottesville, colloquially known as C'ville, is an independent city in Virginia, United States.

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Competence (law)

In United States and Canadian law, competence concerns the mental capacity of an individual to participate in legal proceedings or transactions, and the mental condition a person must have to be responsible for his or her decisions or acts.

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Constitution of the United States

The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States.

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Dakota Johnson

Dakota Mayi Johnson (born October 4, 1989) is an American actress.

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Dictionary of Virginia Biography

The Dictionary of Virginia Biography (DVB) is a multivolume biographical reference work published by the Library of Virginia that covers aspects of Virginia's history and culture since 1607.

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Due process

Due process of law is application by the state of all legal rules and principles pertaining to a case so all legal rights that are owed to a person are respected.

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Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Eighth Amendment (Amendment VIII) to the United States Constitution protects against imposing excessive bail, excessive fines, or cruel and unusual punishments.

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Enterocolitis

Enterocolitis is an inflammation of the digestive tract, involving enteritis of the small intestine and colitis of the colon.

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Equal Protection Clause

The Equal Protection Clause is part of the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

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Eugenics

Eugenics is a set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population.

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Euphemism

A euphemism is an innocuous word or expression used in place of one that is deemed offensive or suggests something unpleasant.

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Feeble-minded

The term feeble-minded was used from the late 19th century in Europe, the United States and Australasia for disorders later referred to as illnesses or deficiencies of the mind.

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Foster care

Foster care is a system in which a minor has been placed into a ward, group home (residential child care community, treatment center, etc.), or private home of a state-certified caregiver, referred to as a "foster parent", or with a family member approved by the state.

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Georgia State University

Georgia State University (Georgia State, State, or GSU) is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Heredity

Heredity, also called inheritance or biological inheritance, is the passing on of traits from parents to their offspring; either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction, the offspring cells or organisms acquire the genetic information of their parents.

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Imbecile

The term imbecile was once used by psychiatrists to denote a category of people with moderate to severe intellectual disability, as well as a type of criminal.

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Intellectual disability

Intellectual disability (ID), also known as general learning disability (in the United Kingdom) and formerly mental retardation (in the United States),Rosa's Law, Pub.

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Involuntary commitment

Involuntary commitment, civil commitment, or involuntary hospitalization/hospitalisation is a legal process through which an individual who is deemed by a qualified person to have symptoms of severe mental disorder is detained in a psychiatric hospital (inpatient) where they can be treated involuntarily.

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Johns Hopkins University Press

Johns Hopkins University Press (also referred to as JHU Press or JHUP) is the publishing division of Johns Hopkins University.

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Joseph DeJarnette

Joseph Spencer DeJarnette (September 29, 1866 – September 3, 1957) was the director of Western State Hospital (located in Staunton, Virginia) from 1905 to November 15, 1943.

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Journal for Plague Lovers

Journal for Plague Lovers is the ninth studio album by Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers, released on 18 May 2009 by record label Columbia.

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Legitimacy (family law)

Legitimacy, in traditional Western common law, is the status of a child born to parents who are legally married to each other, and of a child conceived before the parents obtain a legal divorce.

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Manic Street Preachers

Manic Street Preachers, also known simply as the Manics, are a Welsh rock band formed in Blackwood, Caerphilly, in 1986.

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Mark Warner

Mark Robert Warner (born December 15, 1954) is an American businessman and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Virginia, a seat he has held since 2009.

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Marlee Matlin

Marlee Matlin (born August 24, 1965) is an American actress, author, and activist.

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Measles

Measles is a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable infectious disease caused by measles virus.

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Natural History (magazine)

Natural History is a natural history magazine published in the United States.

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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Nursing home

A nursing home is a facility for the residential care of older people, senior citizens, or disabled people.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (March 8, 1841 – March 6, 1935) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Paul A. Lombardo

Paul A. Lombardo is an American legal historian known for his work on the legacy of eugenics and sterilization in the United States.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house.

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Penguin Group

Penguin Group is a British trade book publisher and part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann.

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Plaintiff

A plaintiff (Π in legal shorthand) is the party who initiates a lawsuit (also known as an action) before a court.

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Promiscuity

Promiscuity is the practice of engaging in sexual activity frequently with different partners or being indiscriminate in the choice of sexual partners.

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Prostitution in the United States

Prostitution is illegal in the vast majority of the United States as a result of state laws rather than federal laws.

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Rape in the United States

Rape in the United States is defined by the United States Department of Justice as "Penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim." While definitions and terminology of rape vary by jurisdiction in the United States, the FBI revised its definition to eliminate a requirement that the crime involve an element of force.

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Relf sisters

Minnie Lee and Mary Alice Relf (who were 12 and 14 years old in 1973, respectively) are two African-American sisters who were involuntarily sterilized by tubal ligation by a federally funded family planning clinic in Montgomery, Alabama in 1973. Carrie Buck and Relf sisters are eugenics in the United States.

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Rutgers University Press

Rutgers University Press (RUP) is a nonprofit academic publishing house, operating in New Brunswick, New Jersey under the auspices of Rutgers University.

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State school

A state school, public school, or government school is a primary or secondary school that educates all students without charge.

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Stephen Jay Gould

Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.

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Syphilis

Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum.

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The A.V. Club

The A.V. Club is an online newspaper and entertainment website featuring reviews, interviews, and other articles that examine films, music, television, books, games, and other elements of pop-culture media.

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The Quarterly Review of Biology

The Quarterly Review of Biology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of biology.

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Tubal ligation

Tubal ligation (commonly known as having one's "tubes tied") is a surgical procedure for female sterilization in which the fallopian tubes are permanently blocked, clipped or removed.

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University of Virginia

The University of Virginia (UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States.

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Vaccination policy

A vaccination policy is a health policy adopted in order to prevent the spread of infectious disease.

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Vintage Books

Vintage Books is a trade paperback publishing imprint of Penguin Random House originally established by Alfred A. Knopf in 1954.

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Virginia

Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

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Virginia Humanities

Virginia Humanities (VH), formerly the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, is a humanities council whose stated mission is to develop the civic, cultural, and intellectual life of the Commonwealth of Virginia by creating learning opportunities for all Virginians.

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Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded

The Virginia State Colony for the Epileptics and Feeble Minded was a state run institution for those considered to be “Feeble minded” or those with severe mental impairment. Carrie Buck and Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded are eugenics in the United States.

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Virginia Sterilization Act of 1924

The Virginia Sterilization Act of 1924 was a U.S. state law in Virginia for the sterilization of institutionalized persons "afflicted with hereditary forms of insanity that are recurrent, idiocy, imbecility, feeble-mindedness or epilepsy”. Carrie Buck and Virginia Sterilization Act of 1924 are eugenics in the United States.

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Waynesboro, Virginia

Waynesboro (formerly Flack) is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Buck

Also known as Carrie E. Buck, Carrie Elizabeth Buck, Vivian Buck.

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Eugenics in the United States

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