The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics by Bashford, Alison

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780199945054)

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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics by Bashford, Alison

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics

$61.00
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics by Bashford, Alison

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics

$61.00
Format: Paperback
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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. 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.

Author: Alison Bashford
ISBN-10: 0199945055
ISBN-13: 9780199945054
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2012
Pages: 608
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.20lbs
Size: 9.70h x 6.70w x 1.60d
By Alison Bashford
By Alison Bashford
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Alison Bashford is Professor of Modern History at the University of Sydney. She has published widely on the modern history of science and medicine, including Purity and Pollution and Imperial Hygiene, and has co-edited Contagion, Isolation, and Medicine at the Border.

Philippa Levine is the Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin. Her books include Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire, and The British Empire, Sunrise to Sunset.

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