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Considered a form of "prevention," especially during its peak from about 1907 and into the 1960s, eugenic ideals such as segregation and sterilization were employed against "imbeciles" and supposed "defectives."

In 1927, the United States Supreme Court upheld compulsory sterilization of the "unfit" in Buck v. Bell.

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