Controlling Human Heredity - 1865 to the Present

Zusatztext "This is an excellent book and deserves a wide readership." -Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences Informationen zum Autor By Diane B. Paul Klappentext 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 propagate 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 guise of genetic counseling. Zusammenfassung How did eugenics come to exert such powerful and broad appeal? What events shaped its direction? Whose interests did it finally serve? Why did it fall into disrepute? Has it survived in other guises? This title sets out to answer some of these questions - questions that have acquired a new urgency in light of developments in genetic medicine.

Product details

• Authors: B. Paul Diane, D.b. Paul, Diane B. Paul
• Assisted by: Michael Ruse (Editor), Morton L. Schagrin (Editor)
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.10.1995
• EAN: 9781573923439
• ISBN: 978-1-57392-343-9
• No. of pages: 170
• Series: Control of Nature; The Control of Nature
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Genetics, genetic engineering; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology