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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Handbooks
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Eugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late
nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in a remarkable
transnational phenomenon that informed social and scientific policy
across the political spectrum, from liberal welfare measures in
emerging social-democratic states, to feminist ambitions for birth
control, to 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: the popularity of eugenics in Japan, for example,
comes as a surprise. It is the first world history of eugenics and
an indispensable core text for both teaching and research in what
has become a sprawling but ever more important field. Eugenics has
accumulated generations of interest as part of the question of how
experts think about the connections between 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, where 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. This volume offers both a
nineteenth-century context for understanding the emergence of
eugenics and a consideration of contemporary manifestations of, and
relationships to eugenics. It is the definitive text for students
and researchers to consult for careful and up-to-date summaries,
new substantive fields where very little work is currently
available (e.g. eugenics in Iran, South Africa, and South East
Asia); transnational thematic lines of inquiry; the integration of
literature on colonialism; and connections to contemporary issues.
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