Alexandra Minna Stern, PhD, is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, American Culture, and History at the University of Michigan. She is a Researcher in the Program on Sexual Rights and Reproductive Justice and a core faculty member in Latina/o Studies. She is the author of Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America (Johns. Hopkins University Press, 2012), Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America (University of California Press, 2005), and co-editor of Formative Years: Children's Health in the United States, 1880-2000 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002).
