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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics (Paperback)
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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics (Paperback)
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Winner of the Cantemir Prize of the Berendel Foundation Eugenic
thought and practice swept the world from the late nineteenth to
the mid-twentieth century in a remarkable transnational phenomenon.
Eugenics informed social and scientific policy across the political
spectrum, from liberal welfare measures in emerging
social-democratic states to feminist ambitions for birth control,
from 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. It is the first world history of eugenics and an
indispensable core text for both teaching and research. Eugenics
has accumulated generations of interest as experts attempted to
connect 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, in which 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.
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