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Control - The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics (Hardcover)
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Control - The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics (Hardcover)
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Control is a book about eugenics, what geneticist Adam Rutherford
calls "a defining idea of the twentieth century." Inspired by
Darwin's ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England
as a theory for improving the British population, and quickly
spread to America, where it was embraced by presidents, funded by
Gilded Age monopolists, and enshrined into racist American laws
that became the ideological cornerstone of the Third Reich. Despite
this horrific legacy, eugenics looms large today as the advances in
genetics in the last thirty years-from the sequencing of the human
genome to modern gene editing techniques-have brought the idea of
population purification back into the mainstream. Eugenics has "a
short history, but a long past," Rutherford writes. The first half
of Control is the history of an idea, from its roots in key
philosophical texts of the classical world all the way into their
genocidal enactment in the twentieth century. The second part of
the book explores how eugenics operates today, as part of our
language and culture, as part of current political and racial
discussions, and as an eternal temptation to powerful people who
wish to improve society through reproductive control. With
disarming wit and scientific precision, Rutherford explains why
eugenics still figures prominently in the twenty-first century,
despite its genocidal past. And he confronts insidious recurring
questions-did eugenics work in Nazi Germany? And could it work
today?-revealing the intellectual bankruptcy of the idea, and the
scientific impossibility of its realization.
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