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About the book: Eugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late nineteenth
to the mid-twentieth century in a remarkable transnational phenomenon. Eugenics informed
social and scientific policy across the political spectrum, from liberal welfare measures
in emerging social-democratic states to feminist ambitions for birth control, from
public health campaigns to totalitarian dreams of the "perfectibility of man." This
book dispels for uninitiated readers the automatic and apparently exclusive link between
eugenics and the Holocaust. It is the first world history of eugenics and an indispensable
core text for both teaching and research. Eugenics has accumulated generations of
interest as experts attempted to connect biology, human capacity, and policy. In the
past and the present, eugenics speaks to questions of race, class, gender and sex,
evolution, governance, nationalism, disability, and the social implications of science.
In the current climate, in which the human genome project, stem cell research, and
new reproductive technologies have proven so controversial, the history of eugenics
has much to teach us about the relationship between scientific research, technology,
and human ethical decision-making. |
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Paul, Diane B. and Moore, James (2010). The Darwinian context: evolution and inheritance.
In: Bashford, Alison and Levine, Phillipa eds. The Oxford Handbook of the History
of Eugenics. Oxford Handbooks. New York, NY, US: Oxford University Press, pp. 27–42.
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Paul, Diane B. and Moore, James (2010). The Darwinian context: evolution and inheritance.
In: Bashford, Alison and Levine, Phillipa eds. The Oxford Handbook of the History
of Eugenics. Oxford Handbooks. New York, NY, US: Oxford University Press, pp. 27–42. |
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The Darwinian context: evolution and inheritance |
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