| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
x, 426 pages ; 24 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Francis Galton, founder of the faith -- Karl Pearson for Saint Biometrika -- Charles Davenport and the worship of great concepts -- The gospel becomes poplular -- Deterioration and deficiency -- Measures of regeneration -- Eugenics enactments -- A coalition of critics -- False biology -- Lionel Penrose and the Colchester survey -- A reform eugenics -- Brave new biology -- The establishment of human genetics -- Apogee of the English school -- Blood, big science and biochemistry -- Chromosomes -- the binder's mistakes -- A new eugenics -- Varieties of presumptuousness -- Songs of deicide. |
| Summary |
Traces the history of eugenics, the science of improving human beings by exploiting theories of heredity, from its late-nineteenth-century origins to the present, addressing such controversial issues as cloning and genetic engineering. |
| Subject |
Eugenics -- History.
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Heredity, Human.
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Race discrimination.
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Genetic engineering.
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Eugenics. |
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Genetic Engineering -- history. |
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Eugenics. (OCoLC)fst00916432
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Genetic engineering. (OCoLC)fst00940027
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Heredity, Human. (OCoLC)fst00955419
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Race discrimination. (OCoLC)fst01086465
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
0394507029 |
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9780394507026 |
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