In the Name of Eugenics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In the Name of Eugenics write by Daniel J. Kevles. This book was released on 1995. In the Name of Eugenics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A rich narrative about the science of "improving" the human race, from the 19th century to genetic engineering today.
Eugenics
Eugenics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eugenics write by Philippa Levine. This book was released on 2017. Eugenics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A concise and gripping account of eugenics from its origins in the twentieth century and beyond.
The Hour of Eugenics"
The Hour of Eugenics" - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hour of Eugenics" write by Nancy Leys Stepan. This book was released on 1996-11-14. The Hour of Eugenics" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Eugenics was a term coined in 1883 to name the scientific and social theory which advocated "race improvement" through selective human breeding. In Europe and the United States the eugenics movement found many supporters before it was finally discredited by its association with the racist ideology of Nazi Germany. Examining for the first time how eugenics was taken up by scientists and social reformers in Latin America, Nancy Leys Stepan compares the eugenics movements in Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina with the more familiar cases of Britain, the United States, and Germany.In this highly original account, Stepan sheds new light on the role of science in reformulating issues of race, gender, reproduction, and public health in an era when the focus on national identity was particularly intense. Drawing upon a rich body of evidence concerning the technical publications and professional meetings of Latin American eugenicists, she examines how they adapted eugenic principles to local contexts between the world wars. Stepan shows that Latin American eugenicists diverged considerably from their counterparts in Europe and the United States in their ideological approach and their interpretations of key texts concerning heredity.
Beyond the Gene
Beyond the Gene - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond the Gene write by Jan Sapp. This book was released on 1987-05-14. Beyond the Gene available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The scope and significance of cytoplasmic inheritance has been the subject of one of the longest controversies in the history of genetics. In the first major book on the history of this subject, Jan Sapp analyses the persistent attempts of investigators of non-Mendelian inheritance to establish their claims in the face of strong resistance from nucleo-centric geneticists and classical neo-Darwinians. A new perspective on the history of genetics is offered as he explores the conflicts which have shaped theoretical thinking about heredity and evolution throughout the century: materialism vs. vitalism, reductionism vs. holism, preformation vs. epigenesis, neo-Darwinism vs. new-Lamarckism, and gradualism vs. saltationism. In so doing, Sapp highlights competitive struggles for power among individuals and disciplinary groups. He accepts that political interests and general social contexts may directly affect scientific ideas, but develops the stronger thesis that social interests inside science itself are always involved in the content of scientific knowledge. He goes on to show that there are no neutral judges in scientific controversies and investigates the social strategies and methodological rhetoric used by scientists when they defend or oppose a particular theory. At the same time, Sapp illustrates the social constraints that ensure the high cost and risk of entertaining unorthodox theories in the sciences.
Imbeciles
Imbeciles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imbeciles write by Adam Seth Cohen. This book was released on 2016. Imbeciles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of America's great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court's infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of "undesirable" citizens the law of the land New York Times bestselling author Adam Cohen tells the story in Imbeciles of one of the darkest moments in the American legal tradition: the Supreme Court's decision to champion eugenic sterilization for the greater good of the country. In 1927, when the nation was caught up in eugenic fervor, the justices allowed Virginia to sterilize Carrie Buck, a perfectly normal young woman, for being an "imbecile." It is a story with many villains, from the superintendent of the Dickensian Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded who chose Carrie for sterilization to the former Missouri agriculture professor and Nazi sympathizer who was the nation's leading advocate for eugenic sterilization. But the most troubling actors of all were the eight Supreme Court justices who were in the majority - including William Howard Taft, the former president; Louis Brandeis, the legendary progressive; and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., America's most esteemed justice, who wrote the decision urging the nation to embark on a program of mass eugenic sterilization. Exposing this tremendous injustice--which led to the sterilization of 70,000 Americans--Imbeciles overturns cherished myths and reappraises heroic figures in its relentless pursuit of the truth. With the precision of a legal brief and the passion of a front-page exposé, Cohen's Imbeciles is an unquestionable triumph of American legal and social history, an ardent accusation against these acclaimed men and our own optimistic faith in progress.
