Alexandra Minna Stern
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American historian
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Alexandra Minna Stern's Degrees
- PhD History University of California, Berkeley
- Masters History University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Alexandra Minna Stern is the Humanities Dean, and Professor of English and History, and at the Institute for Society and Genetics, at the University of California, Los Angeles. Academic career Her research focuses on the history of eugenics, the uses and misuses of genetics, and the extremism of the far right in national and international contexts. She has also written about the history of public health, infectious diseases, and tropical medicine. Through these topics, she explores the dynamics of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, disability, social difference, and reproductive politics.
Alexandra Minna Stern's Published Works
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- Nonpharmaceutical interventions implemented by US cities during the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic. (2007) (650)
- Sterilized in the name of public health: race, immigration, and reproductive control in modern California. (2005) (261)
- The history of vaccines and immunization: familiar patterns, new challenges. (2005) (251)
- The foreignness of germs: the persistent association of immigrants and disease in American society. (2002) (155)
- Nonpharmaceutical Influenza Mitigation Strategies, US Communities, 1918–1920 Pandemic (2006) (91)
- Research findings from nonpharmaceutical intervention studies for pandemic influenza and current gaps in the research. (2010) (73)
- Responsible mothers and normal children: eugenics, nationalism, and welfare in post-revolutionary Mexico, 1920-1940. (1999) (70)
- Buildings, Boundaries, and Blood: Medicalization and Nation-Building on the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1910-1930 (1999) (53)
- International efforts to control infectious diseases, 1851 to the present. (2004) (52)
- Closing the schools: lessons from the 1918-19 U.S. influenza pandemic. (2009) (48)
- Disproportionate Sterilization of Latinos Under California’s Eugenic Sterilization Program, 1920-1945 (2018) (48)
- A Quiet Revolution: The Birth of the Genetic Counselor at Sarah Lawrence College, 1969 (2009) (45)
- California's Sterilization Survivors: An Estimate and Call for Redress (2017) (45)
- What Mexico taught the world about pandemic influenza preparedness and community mitigation strategies. (2009) (39)
- Buildings, boundaries, and blood: medicalization and nation-building on the U.S.-Mexico border, 1910-1930. (1999) (36)
- Which Face? Whose Nation? (1999) (34)
- Making better babies: public health and race betterment in Indiana, 1920-1935. (2002) (33)
- Mestizofilia, biotipología y eugenesia en el México posrevolucionario: hacia una historia de la ciencia y el Estado, 1920-1960 (2000) (30)
- Formative Years: Children's Health in the United States, 1880-2000 (2002) (28)
- Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America (2012) (26)
- Spatial Stigma and Health in Postindustrial Detroit (2016) (25)
- “The Hour of Eugenics” in Veracruz, Mexico: Radical Politics, Public Health, and Latin America's Only Sterilization Law (2011) (25)
- Nationalism on the Line: Masculinity, Race, and the Creation of the U.S. Border Patrol, 1910–1940 (2004) (22)
- Findings, gaps, and future direction for research in nonpharmaceutical interventions for pandemic influenza. (2010) (20)
- Eugenic Nation (2019) (18)
- A Historical Assessment of Nonpharmaceutical Disease Containment Strategies Employed by Selected U.S. Communities during the Second Wave of the 1918-1920 Influenza Epidemic (2006) (17)
- Mexican Americans and Eugenic Sterilization: Resisting Reproductive Injustice in California, 1920–1950 (2014) (17)
- Sterilized in the name of public health: Race, immigration and reproductive control in California in the twentieth century (2008) (17)
- “Better off in School”: School Medical Inspection as a Public Health Strategy during the 1918–1919 Influenza Pandemic in the United States (2010) (16)
- The 1918–1919 Influenza Pandemic in the United States: Lessons Learned and Challenges Exposed (2010) (15)
- "We Cannot Make a Silk Purse Out of a Sow's Ear": Eugenics in the Hoosier Heartland (2007) (14)
- Beauty is not always better: perfect babies and the tyranny of paediatric norms (2002) (13)
- Zika and reproductive justice (2016) (12)
- Yellow fever crusade: US colonialism, tropical medicine, and the international politics of mosquito control, 1900-1920 (2007) (9)
- The Public Health Service in the Panama Canal: a forgotten chapter of U.S. public health. (2005) (9)
- Fit to be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879–1939 (2007) (9)
- Eugenics and Historical Memory in America (2005) (8)
- Eugenics, sterilization, and historical memory in the United States. (2016) (8)
- The Genealogical Science: The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of Epistemology by Nadia Abu El-Haj (review) (2014) (7)
- Esterilizadas en Nombre de la Salud Pública: Raza, Inmigración y Control Reproductivo en California en el Siglo XX (2006) (7)
- Theodore E. Woodward award: non-pharmaceutical interventions employed by major American cities during the 1918-19 influenza pandemic. (2008) (6)
- Nonpharmaceutical Interventions Implemented During the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic—Reply (2007) (6)
- Eugenics in Latin America (2016) (5)
- Presidential health and the public's need to know. (2008) (5)
- Gender and Sexuality: A Global Tour and Compass (2010) (5)
- Eugenics beyond borders : science and medicalization in Mexico and the U.S. West, 1900-1950 (2000) (5)
- Secrets under the Skin: New Historical Perspectives on Disease, Deviation, and Citizenship. A Review Article (1999) (4)
- Public Health Chronicles (2005) (4)
- Lucien Howe, hereditary blindness, and the eugenics movement. (2010) (4)
- Assessing Argentina's Response to H1N1 in Austral Winter 2009: From Presidential Lethargy to Local Ingenuity (2011) (4)
- Fevered measures: Public health and race at the Texas-Mexico border, 1848–1942 (2013) (3)
- All quiet on the third coast: medical inspections of immigrants in Michigan. (1999) (3)
- A historical perspective on the changing contours of medical residency programs. (2004) (3)
- Commentary: Disease etiology and political ideology: revisiting Erwin H Ackerknecht's Classic 1948 Essay, 'Anticontagionism between 1821 and 1867'. (2009) (3)
- An Empire of Tests: Psychometrics and the Paradoxes of Nationalism in the Americas (2006) (3)
- Book Reviews: A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteenth-Century America, by Michael Sappol. (2004) (2)
- Unraveling the history of eugenics in Mexico (2000) (2)
- From legislation to lived experience: Eugenic sterilization in California and Indiana, 1907-79 (2011) (2)
- Shadows of doubt: the uneasy incorporation of identification science into legal determination of paternity in Brazil. (2017) (2)
- Gender and the Far-right in the United States: Female Extremists and the Mainstreaming of Contemporary White Nationalism (2022) (1)
- Cautions About Medicalized Dehumanization. (2021) (1)
- California’s Eugenic Landscapes (2015) (1)
- Scrutinizing the Immigrant Working Class (2004) (1)
- A History of Family Planning in Twentieth-Century Peru by Raúl Necochea López (review) (2016) (1)
- Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom (review) (2003) (1)
- Improving Hoosiers: Indiana and the Wide Scope of American Eugenics (2010) (1)
- Building a fit society: Indiana's eugenics crusaders (2007) (1)
- On the Road with Chicana/o History: From Aztlán to the Alamo and Back (2013) (1)
- Well Founded Fear (2020) (1)
- Sombras de duda: la ardua incorporación de las pruebas científicas de identificación en la determinación legal de la paternidad en Brasil (2017) (0)
- Facing Eugenics: Reproduction, Sterilization, and the Politics of Choice by Erika Dyck (review) (2015) (0)
- Don't scapegoat Mexico: Blaming Mexicans for swine flu harms public health efforts (2009) (0)
- Plague, Fear, and Politics in San Francisco's Chinatown (2013) (0)
- A Reusable Past: The Meaning of the Third Reich in Recent U.S. Discourse (2022) (0)
- Centering Eugenics on the Family (2015) (0)
- Heredity Explored: Between Public Domain and Experimental Science, 1850–1930 ed. by Staffan Müller-Wille and Christina Brandt (review) (2017) (0)
- Acknowledgments (2004) (0)
- Racialization and Reproduction: Asian Immigrants and California’s Twentieth-Century Eugenic Sterilization Program (2023) (0)
- Disease in the History of Modern Latin America: From Malaria to AIDS (review) (2003) (0)
- The 1918 influenza epidemic hits Princeton University. (2009) (0)
- Chicano/a History: Looking Forward after Forty Years (2013) (0)
- Quarantine and the public good (2009) (0)
- Against the Odds: Becoming a Female Physician in Midcentury Indiana (2008) (0)
- Chapter 1. Race Betterment and Tropical Medicine in Imperial San Francisco (2019) (0)
- State of Immunity: The Politics of Vaccination in Twentieth-Century America (review) (2007) (0)
- Instituting Eugenics in California (2015) (0)
- Quarantine and Eugenic Gatekeeping on the US-Mexican Border (2015) (0)
- Prenatal Testing: In the Name of Eugenics? (2014) (0)
- Chapter 6. Centering Eugenics on the Family (2019) (0)
- I Like to Keep My Body Whole (2015) (0)
- Gender and Far-right Nationalism: Historical and International Dimensions. Introduction (2022) (0)
- 2. Making Better Babies (2019) (0)
- Race, health, and discrimination: historical and contemporary perspectives from Brazil and the United States. (2017) (0)
- Chapter 3. Instituting Eugenics in California (2019) (0)
- "Fitter Families, Better Babies, and Reproductive Control" (2005) (0)
- Gerald V. O'Brien, Framing the Moron: The Social Construction of Feeble-mindedness in the American Eugenic Era (2015) (0)
- Chapter 5. California’s Eugenic Landscapes (2019) (0)
- Jennifer Lisa Koslow . Cultivating Health: Los Angeles Women and Public Health Reform . (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine.) New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press . 2009 . Pp. xi, 204. $45.95. (2010) (0)
- Race Betterment and Tropical Medicine in Imperial San Francisco (2015) (0)
- American Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism (review) (2004) (0)
- Chapter 4. “I Like to Keep My Body Whole”: Reconsidering Eugenic Sterilization in California (2019) (0)
- Blaming The Flu On Mexicans is Immoral. And Foolish. (2009) (0)
- Entanglements of Eugenics, Public Health, and Academic Medicine: Reckoning with the Life and Legacies of Victor C. Vaughan (2022) (0)
- 41. The Bleak New World of Prenatal Genetics (2019) (0)
- Fit to Be Tied: Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1950–1980 (review) (2010) (0)
- Eugenic Sterilization in California State Homes , 1919-1945 : Using Sterilization Records and Census Records to Quantify Ethnic Bias in Sterilization (2015) (0)
- What Parents Should Know About Drowning and Dry Drowning. (2022) (0)
- The Public Health Service and Film Noir: A Look Back at Elia Kazan's Panic in the Streets (1950) (2003) (0)
- Erratum (2017) (0)
- Nonlinear regular systems for heating and material by removal of body tissue (1995) (0)
- Chapter 7. Contesting Hereditarianism: Reassessing the 1960s (2019) (0)
- Gregory Michael Dorr.Segregation's Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia.(Carter G. Woodson Institute Series.)xi + 297 pp., illus., tables, bibls., index. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. $45 (cloth). (2010) (0)
- Chapter 2. Quarantine and Eugenic Gatekeeping on the US-Mexican Border (2019) (0)
- Reproductive technologies and the persistence of eugenics (2020) (0)
- Ricardo D. Salvatore and Carlos Aguirre, eds., The Birth of the Penitentiary in Latin America: Essays on Criminology, Prison Reform, and Social Control, 1830–1940 , Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996. Pp. 279. $14.95 (ISBN: 0-292-77707-8). (1999) (0)
- THE LEGEND OF COLUMBUS [with response] (2016) (0)
- Laura L. Lovett.Conceiving the Future: Pronatalism, Reproduction, and the Family in the United States, 1890–1938. xi + 236 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. $19.95 (paper). (2008) (0)
- Tiempo de evolución de la obesidad, los parámetros cardiometabólicos y la salud periodontal, en sujetos hipertensos tratados. (2015) (0)
- Compilando y extendiendo la historia de la eugenesia en el mundo latino: avances y ausencias (2012) (0)
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