... The noun defective was used in the early twentieth century to describe people and classes who were imagined to threaten Californian society through their reproductive capacity. This chapter uses defective as a heuristic device to discuss how agents of the state of California created...

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... This section explores some of the ways in which cure is connected to violence. Because defectiveness justifies cure and makes it essential, this exploration starts with the word and concept defect and how its power relies on ableism. In turn, defectiveness is used to justify many forms...

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... infrastructure, the U.S. brain drain of important scientists and medical figures urged to defect to the United States, and the nation’s success in dealing with such health crises as HIV/AIDS. universal health care socialized medicine brain drain medical defection internationalism ...

... Chapter 2 examines the origins of a political language of “race” through the image of a frayed or strained fabric that metaphorically expresses a dangerous hidden defect in a population. This meaning, which emerged at the Iberian threshold between the medieval and the early modern periods, would...

... of economic greed of the corporate trusts and the growing population of defectives. Starting with an analysis of Frank Norris’s novel The Octopus published in 1901, this chapter examines how institutions were used to discipline labor. Eugenics institutions were places for the state to experiment...

... Fritz Scholder’s paintings conjured the United States’ betrayal of its treaty obligations to Native nations before diverse publics abroad in 1972. Disgusted by the US government’s propaganda, the artist defected from a tour in Romania to visit Dracula’s castle and paint a little-known Indian...

... scientists' claim of “socialist pragmatism.” But new projects such as engineering “genius babies” and experimenting with gene editing on admittedly defective genes draw worries that poor ethical regulations in China give scientists there an edge over high-stakes research in the West. These two modalities...