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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics
Alison Bashford
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Paperback. Editor(s): Bashford, Alison; Levine, Professor Philippa. Series: Oxford Handbooks in History. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHBD; MBX; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 173 x 40. Weight in Grams: 926.
Winner of the Cantemir Prize of the Berendel Foundation Eugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in a remarkable transnational phenomenon. Eugenics informed social and scientific policy across the political spectrum, from liberal welfare measures in emerging social-democratic states to feminist ambitions for birth control, from public health campaigns to totalitarian dreams of the perfectibility of man. This book dispels for uninitiated readers the automatic and apparently exclusive link between eugenics and the Holocaust. It is the first world history of eugenics and an indispensable core ... Read more
Winner of the Cantemir Prize of the Berendel Foundation Eugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in a remarkable transnational phenomenon. Eugenics informed social and scientific policy across the political spectrum, from liberal welfare measures in emerging social-democratic states to feminist ambitions for birth control, from public health campaigns to totalitarian dreams of the perfectibility of man. This book dispels for uninitiated readers the automatic and apparently exclusive link between eugenics and the Holocaust. It is the first world history of eugenics and an indispensable core ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Number of pages
608
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Oxford Handbooks
Condition
New
Weight
925g
Number of Pages
608
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199945054
SKU
V9780199945054
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About Alison Bashford
Alison Bashford is Professor of Modern History at the University of Sydney. She has published widely on the modern history of science and medicine, including Purity and Pollution and Imperial Hygiene, and has co-edited Contagion, Isolation, and Medicine at the Border. Philippa Levine is the Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities at the University of ... Read more
Reviews for The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics
Both the beginner and the seasoned scholar should be able to find new and intriguing perspectives in this well-edited volume.
Maria Bjoerkman, British Journal for the History of Science
An impresive survey.
Angus McLaren, Histoire sociale Vol. XLV No. 90
Maria Bjoerkman, British Journal for the History of Science
An impresive survey.
Angus McLaren, Histoire sociale Vol. XLV No. 90