Eugenics, Human Genetics and Human Failings: The Eugenics Society, Its Sources and Its Critics in Britain

ISBN-13: 9780415514811 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 384 str.

Mazumdar, Pauline

Opis

This scholarly and penetrating study of eugenics is a major contribution to our understanding of the complex relation between science, ideology and class.

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