Eugenics, human genetics, and human failings : the Eugenics Society, its sources and its critics in Britain
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Eugenics, human genetics, and human failings : the Eugenics Society, its sources and its critics in Britain
Routledge, 1992
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-352) and index
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Description
This scholarly and penetrating study of eugenics is a major contribution to our understanding of the complex relation between science, ideology and class.
Table of Contents
Introduction: 1. The Eugenics Education Society: the Setting and the Programme, 2. The Age of Pedigrees: the Methodology of Eugenics, 1900-1920, 3. Ideology and Method: R A Fisher and Research in Eugenics, 1920-1930, 4. The Attack from the Left: Marxism and the new Mathematical Techniques of the Thirties, 5. Human Genetics and the Eugenics Problematic, 1930-1950, Epilogue and Conclusion
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