Controlling Human Heredity : 1865 to the Present

Name: Controlling Human Heredity
Brand: Prometheus Books
SKU: 9781573923439
Price: 3800 KES
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ISBN: 9781573923439

by Diane B. Paul

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 1573923435

ISBN-13 9781573923439

Publisher Prometheus Books

Imprint Humanity Books

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Nov 1st, 1995

Print length 170 Pages

Weight 204 grams

Dimensions 21.10 x 14.00 x 1.00 cms

Product Classification: Population & demography Population and demography Genetics (non-medical)

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How did eugenics come to exert such powerful and broad appeal? What events shaped its direction? Whose interests did it finally serve? Why did it fall into disrepute? Has it survived in other guises? This title sets out to answer some of these questions - questions that have acquired a new urgency in light of developments in genetic medicine.

In the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century, it was widely assumed that society ought to foster the breeding of those who possessed favorable traits and discourage the breeding of those who did not. Controlled human breeding, or "eugenics" as it was called, was a movement with broad support that lasted into the 1930s. In this concise historical account, the author answers the questions of why eugenics, the search for means to propagate only "good genes," was so attractive earlier in the twentieth century, why it then fell into disrepute, and whether it has returned today in the new guise of genetic counseling.

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