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God's Eugenicist - Alexis Carrel and the Sociobiology of Decline (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)
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God's Eugenicist - Alexis Carrel and the Sociobiology of Decline (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)
Series: Berghahn Monographs in French Studies
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The temptations of a new genetically informed eugenics and of a
revived faith-based, world-wide political stance, this study of the
interaction of science, religion, politics and the culture of
celebrity in twentieth-century Europe and America offers a
fascinating and important contribution to the history of this
movement. The author looks at the career of French-born physician
and Nobel Prize winner, Alexis Carrel (1873-1944), as a way of
understanding the popularization of eugenics through religious
faith, scientific expertise, cultural despair and right-wing
politics in the 1930s and 1940s. Carrel was among the most
prestigious experimental surgeons of his time who also held deeply
illiberal views. In Man, the Unknown (1935), he endorsed fascism
and called for the elimination of the unfit. The book became a huge
international success, largely thanks to its promotion by Readers'
Digest as well as by the author's friendship with Charles
Lindbergh. In 1941, he went into the service of the French
pro-German regime of Vichy, which appointed him to head an
institution of eugenics research. His influence was remarkable,
affecting radical Islamic groups as well Le Pen's Front National
that celebrated him as the founder of ecology. It includes a
foreword by Herman Lebovics.
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