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Control - The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
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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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Imprint: |
W W Norton & Co Inc
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2023 |
Authors: |
Adam Rutherford
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Dimensions: |
210 x 140mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
288 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-324-06613-2 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-324-06613-X |
Barcode: |
9781324066132 |
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