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Outcasts from Evolution: Scientific Attitudes of Racial Inferiority, 1859 - 1900
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Description for Outcasts from Evolution: Scientific Attitudes of Racial Inferiority, 1859 - 1900
Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSL3; JHBD; PSAK; PSXE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
In the only book to date to explore the period between the 1859 publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species and the discovery in 1900 of Gregor Mendel’s experiments in genetics, John S. Haller, Jr., shows the relationship between scientific ""conviction"" and public policy. He focuses on the numerous liberally educated American scientists who were caught up in the triumph of evolutionary ideas and who sought to apply those ideas to comparative morality, health, and the physiognomy of nonwhite races. During this period, the natural and social scientists of the day not only accepted without question the genetic and cultural superiority ... Read more
In the only book to date to explore the period between the 1859 publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species and the discovery in 1900 of Gregor Mendel’s experiments in genetics, John S. Haller, Jr., shows the relationship between scientific ""conviction"" and public policy. He focuses on the numerous liberally educated American scientists who were caught up in the triumph of evolutionary ideas and who sought to apply those ideas to comparative morality, health, and the physiognomy of nonwhite races. During this period, the natural and social scientists of the day not only accepted without question the genetic and cultural superiority ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809319824
SKU
V9780809319824
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Ref
99-15
About Haller
John S. Haller, Jr., is the author of Medical Protestants: The Eclectics in American Medicine, 1825–1939 and Farmcarts to Fords: A History of the Military Ambulance, 1790–1925, both available from Southern Illinois University Press.
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