Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9781324066132ISBN-10:132406613XUPC:9781324066132Book Category:History, Science, MedicalBook Subcategory:Social History, History, EthicsSize:8.23 x 5.53 x 0.47 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCHFTEAMR0
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
Control is a book about eugenics, what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls "a defining idea of the twentieth century." Inspired by Darwin's ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England as a theory for improving the British population, and quickly spread to America, where it was embraced by presidents, funded by Gilded Age monopolists, and enshrined into racist American laws that becam...
Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9781324066132ISBN-10:132406613XUPC:9781324066132Book Category:History, Science, MedicalBook Subcategory:Social History, History, EthicsSize:8.23 x 5.53 x 0.47 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCHFTEAMR0
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