| Description |
xiv, 451 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-426) and index. |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. Who are the unfit? -- Ch. 2. The unfit in Biblical times -- Ch. 3. Self-pollution and declining health -- Ch. 4. Degeneracy theory: identifying the innately depraved and the victims of vicious upbringing -- Ch. 5. Dangerous classes and social degeneracy -- Ch. 6. Poor laws and the descent to degeneracy -- Ch. 7. The perfectibility of man confronts vice and misery -- Ch. 8. Evolutionary ethics before darwin -- Ch. 9. Hereditary units and the pessimism of the germ plasm -- Ch. 10. The Jukes and the tribe of Ishmael -- Ch. 11. A minor prophet of democracy -- Ch. 12. Isolating the unfit through compulsory sterilization -- Ch. 13. The emergence of two wings of the eugenics movement -- Ch. 14. Europe's undesirables replace the domestic unfit -- Ch. 15. Eugenics becomes an international movement -- Ch. 16. Racism and human inequality -- Ch. 17. Jews as people, race, culture, religion, and victims -- Ch. 18. The smoke of Auschwitz -- Ch. 19. The abandonment of eugenics by genetics -- Ch. 20. The future of eugenics -- Ch. 21. Dealing with life's imperfections. |
| Subject |
Eugenics -- History.
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Eugenics -- history. |
| ISBN |
0879695870 (alk. paper) |
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9780879695873 (alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
NLM 101151754 |
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NLGGC 217495893 |
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YDXCP 1764126 |
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NZ1 6295010 |
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AU@ 000022713180 |
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IG# 9780879696580 |
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