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24770 Creator ext-17c9638cd21d685961119633af9a430b
24770 Date 2010-08
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24770 abstract 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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24770 label 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.
24770 label 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.
24770 Publisher ext-ffae441f908983694f410e3721f2491d
24770 Title The Darwinian context: evolution and inheritance
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