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Control - Now the major BBC Radio 4 series BAD BLOOD (Hardcover)
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Control - Now the major BBC Radio 4 series BAD BLOOD (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R374
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* FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO ARGUE WITH A
RACIST * Throughout history, people have sought to improve society
by reducing suffering, eliminating disease or enhancing desirable
qualities in their children. But this wish goes hand in hand with
the desire to impose control over who can marry, who can procreate
and who is permitted to live. In the Victorian era, in the shadow
of Darwin's ideas about evolution, a new full-blooded attempt to
impose control over our unruly biology began to grow in the clubs,
salons and offices of the powerful. It was enshrined in a political
movement that bastardised science, and for sixty years enjoyed
bipartisan and huge popular support. Eugenics was vigorously
embraced in dozens of countries. It was also a cornerstone of Nazi
ideology, and forged a path that led directly to the gates of
Auschwitz. But the underlying ideas are not merely historical. The
legacy of eugenics persists in our language and literature, from
the words 'moron' and 'imbecile' to the themes of some of our
greatest works of culture. Today, with new gene editing techniques,
very real conversations are happening - including in the heart of
British government - about tinkering with the DNA of our unborn
children, to make them smarter, fitter, stronger. CONTROL tells the
story of attempts by the powerful throughout history to dictate
reproduction and regulate the interface of breeding and society. It
is an urgently needed examination that unpicks one of the defining
and most destructive ideas of the twentieth century. To know this
history is to inoculate ourselves against its being repeated.
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