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In the Name of Eugenics
Language: en
Pages: 698
Authors: Daniel J. Kevles
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-08 - Publisher: Knopf

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Daniel Kevles traces the study and practice of eugenics--the science of "improving" the human species by exploiting theories of heredity--from its inception in
Eugenics
Language: en
Pages: 167
Authors: Philippa Levine
Categories: Eugenics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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A concise and gripping account of eugenics from its origins in the twentieth century and beyond.
Beyond the Gene
Language: en
Pages: 283
Authors: Jan Sapp
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987-05-14 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The scope and significance of cytoplasmic inheritance has been the subject of one of the longest controversies in the history of genetics. In the first major bo
The Hour of Eugenics
Language: en
Pages: 216
Authors: Nancy Leys Stepan
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-11-14 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Eugenics was a term coined in 1883 to name the scientific and social theory which advocated "race improvement" through selective human breeding. In Europe and t
Eugenic Nation
Language: en
Pages: 422
Authors: Alexandra Minna Stern
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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"With an emphasis on the American West, Eugenic Nation explores the long and unsettled history of eugenics in the United States. This expanded second edition in