The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics Tapa blanda - 2012

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Oxford Univ Pr, 2012. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 586 pages. 8.75x6.50x1.50 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. Winner of the Cantemir Prize of the Berendel Foundation Eugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in a remarkable transnational phenomenon. Eugenics informed social and scientific policy across the political spectrum, from liberal welfare measures in emerging social-democratic states to feminist ambitions for birth control, from public health campaigns to totalitarian dreams of the "perfectibility of man." This book dispels for uninitiated readers the automatic and apparently exclusive link between eugenics and the Holocaust. It is the first world history of eugenics and an indispensable core text for both teaching and research. Eugenics has accumulated generations of interest as experts attempted to connect biology, human capacity, and policy. In the past and the present, eugenics speaks to questions of race, class, gender and sex, evolution, governance, nationalism, disability, and the social… Leer más

Oxford Univ Pr, 2012. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 586 pages. 8.75x6.50x1.50 inches.

Oxford University Press. Paperback. New. 9x6x1. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing