The Purifying Knife Kent Eaton Mad Dogs and Other New

Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers offers lay readers and specialists alike the opportunity to contemplate a tumultuous domain of people

but has no interest in life's future

could not have been further from the truth

‘sick’

The Purifying Knife Kent Eaton Mad Dogs and Other NewThroughout the first half of the twentieth century, 32 states passed laws allowing involuntary sterilization on those deemed biologically "unfit": convicted criminals, the disabled, the poor, and people of color. Texas, despite a history of violent racism, was not one of them. In The Purifying Knife, Michael Phillips and Betsy Friauf explore this curious instance of the Lone Star State's exceptionalism. The first history of the eugenics movement in