Download or read book Choice and Coercion written by Johanna Schoen and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 2003, North Carolina became the first U.S. state to offer restitution to victims of state-ordered sterilizations carried out by its eugenics program between 1929 and 1975. The decision was prompted by newspaper stories based on the research of Johanna Schoen, who was granted unique access to summaries of 7,500 case histories and the pa...