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Controlling Human Heredity
D.B. Paul
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Description for Controlling Human Heredity
Paperback. Num Pages: 158 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; JHBD; PSAK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 211 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 204.
In the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century, it was widely assumed that society ought to foster the breeding of those who possessed favorable traits and discourage the breeding of those who did not. Controlled human breeding, or "eugenics" as it was called, was a movement with broad support that lasted into the 1930s. In this concise historical account, the author answers the questions of why eugenics, the search for means to propage only "good genes," was so attractive earlier in the twentieth century, why it then fell into disrepute, and whether it has returned today in the new ... Read more
In the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century, it was widely assumed that society ought to foster the breeding of those who possessed favorable traits and discourage the breeding of those who did not. Controlled human breeding, or "eugenics" as it was called, was a movement with broad support that lasted into the 1930s. In this concise historical account, the author answers the questions of why eugenics, the search for means to propage only "good genes," was so attractive earlier in the twentieth century, why it then fell into disrepute, and whether it has returned today in the new ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Prometheus Books United States
Number of pages
158
Condition
New
Number of Pages
170
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781573923439
SKU
V9781573923439
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99-11
Reviews for Controlling Human Heredity
""This is an excellent book and deserves a wide readership.”-Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences