Controlling Human Heredity : 1865 to the Present
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1573923435
ISBN-13
9781573923439
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Imprint
Prometheus 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 & demographyGenetics (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 propage only "good genes," was so attractive earlier in the 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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