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.
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.
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.
Genetics in the Madhouse
Genetics in the Madhouse - 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 Genetics in the Madhouse write by Theodore M. Porter. This book was released on 2020-07-14. Genetics in the Madhouse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most important of these causes. As doctors and state officials steadily lost faith in the capacity of asylum care to stem the terrible increase of insanity, they began emphasizing the need to curb the reproduction of the insane. They became obsessed with identifying weak or tainted families and anticipating the outcomes of their marriages. Genetics in the Madhouse is the untold story of how the collection and sorting of hereditary data in mental hospitals, schools for 'feebleminded' children, and prisons gave rise to a new science of human heredity. In this compelling book, Theodore Porter draws on untapped archival evidence from across Europe and North America to bring to light the hidden history behind modern genetics. He looks at the institutional use of pedigree charts, censuses of mental illness, medical-social surveys, and other data techniques--innovative quantitative practices that were worked out in the madhouse long before the manipulation of DNA became possible in the lab. Porter argues that asylum doctors developed many of the ideologies and methods of what would come to be known as eugenics, and deepens our appreciation of the moral issues at stake in data work conducted on the border of subjectivity and science. A bold rethinking of asylum work, Genetics in the Madhouse shows how heredity was a human science as well as a medical and biological one"--Jacket.
