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.

Brings together many of the writings of the movement, charting the rise of the Eugenics movement. This book focuses on the British and American Eugenics movement but also includes some papers from France, Russia and Germany. It offers an insight into Eugenics and its development. It is intended for students and researchers.

In the first hundred years of the history of immunology, the question of species and specificity were the core problems of research and practice in immunology. The old botanical dispute about the nature of species, which has its roots in the classical Western thought of Aristotle, reappeared in the late nineteenth century in the disputes of bacteriologists, to be followed by their students, the immunologists, immunochemists, and blood group geneticists. In the course of this controversy, Mazumdar argues, five generations of scientific protagonists make themselves aggressively plain. Their...

In the first hundred years of the history of immunology, the question of species and specificity were the core problems of research and practice in immunology. The old botanical dispute about the nature of species, which has its roots in the classical Western thought of Aristotle, reappeared in the late nineteenth century in the disputes of bacteriologists, to be followed by their students, the immunologists, immunochemists, and blood group geneticists. In the course of this controversy, Mazumdar argues, five generations of scientific protagonists make themselves aggressively plain. Their...