Eugenics, Human Genetics and Human Failings
The Eugenics Society, its sources and its critics in Britain
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Main description:
This scholarly and penetrating study of eugenics is a major contribution to our understanding of the complex relation between science, ideology and class.
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Introduction: 1. The Eugenics Education Society: the Setting and the Programme, 2. The Age of Pedigrees: the Methodology of Eugenics, 1900-1920, 3. Ideology and Method: R A Fisher and Research in Eugenics, 1920-1930, 4. The Attack from the Left: Marxism and the new Mathematical Techniques of the Thirties, 5. Human Genetics and the Eugenics Problematic, 1930-1950, Epilogue and Conclusion
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ISBN-13: 9780415514811
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Publication date: November, 2011
Pages: 384
Weight: 710g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: General Issues
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Publication date: November, 2011
Pages: 384
Weight: 710g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: General Issues
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