Review: ‘Three Generations, No Imbeciles’ by Paul A. Lombardo
August 30, 2009 Paul A. Lombardo’s history of Buck v. Bell, Three Generations, No Imbeciles (2008. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.), is a terrific telling of case of Carrie Buck, a young woman sterilized by Virginia in 1927 in order to prevent her from having more “socially inadequate” offspring. In 1924, supporters of a…