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feeble-minded
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That decision, which upheld the forced sterilization of "a feebleminded white woman" identified as "the probable potential parent of socially inadequate offspring," included Holmes' often-quoted declaration that "three generations of imbeciles are enough.
During the 1800s, the indigent, insane and feebleminded of all ages were restrained in prisons, asylums, almshouses, orphanages and reformatories.
There was also a "particularly criminalistic subgroup of the feebleminded, moral imbeciles, whose intellectual defects can be discerned only by experts.
 
 
 
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