Eugenics, Human Genetics and Human Failings : The Eugenics Society, its sources and its critics in Britain

ISBN-13: 9780415044240 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 384 str.

Pauline M. H. Mazumdar; P. Mazumdar

Opis

This study follows the history of the eugenics movement from its roots to its heyday as the source of a science of human genetics. The book points to 19th-century social reform as contributing to the later eugenics movement.

Spis treści

Introduction: 1. The Eugenics Education Society: the Setting and the Programme, 2. The Age of Pedigrees: the Methodology of Eugenics, 1900-1920, 3. Ideology and Method: R A Fisher and Research in Eugenics, 1920-1930, 4. The Attack from the Left: Marxism and the new Mathematical Techniques of the Thirties, 5. Human Genetics and the Eugenics Problematic, 1930-1950, Epilogue and Conclusion

O autorze

Pauline Mazumdar