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Control - The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics (Paperback)
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Control - The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics (Paperback)
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List price R280
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How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust
within just fifty years? Why does eugenics still loom large in the
21st century, despite its genocidal past? Did eugenics work? Could
it work? Or was it always a pseudoscientific fantasy? Throughout
history, people have sought to reduce suffering, eliminate disease
and enhance desirable qualities in their children. In the Victorian
era eugenics, a full-blooded attempt to impose control over unruly
biology, began to grow among the powerful and quickly spread to
dozens of countries around the world. But these ideas are not
merely historical: today, with new gene editing techniques,
conversations are happening about tinkering with the DNA of our
unborn children to make them smarter, fitter, stronger. Deeply
steeped in contemporary genetics, CONTROL offers a vital account of
one of the defining - and most destructive - ideas of the twentieth
century.
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