title: [Eugenist politics in the United States of America in the first xxth half-century].
abstract: The United-States were the first country which had devised eugenist politics. The applications of theories had taken place as far as the end of the 1960's. They were placed one's reliance on two points: on the one hand, immigration's limitation and on the other hand an obligatory sterilisation of criminels and feebleminde people.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Biologie du développement et de la différenciation musculaire, Université Paris 5, 45, rue des Saints-Pères, 75006 Paris, France. aubert@biomedicale.univ-paris5.fr
authors.forename: Dominique
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Aubert-Marson
mesh_terms: D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005053:Eugenics / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D013244:Sterilization, Involuntary / Q000266:history / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014481:United States