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Availability:In StockContributor:Philippa LevineSeries:Very Short IntroductionsPublish date:2017-01-02Pages:168
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780199385904ISBN-10:199385904UPC:9780199385904Book Category:Science, MedicalBook Subcategory:History, Life Sciences, GeneticsBook Topic:Genetics & GenomicsSize:6.80 x 4.40 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCNDYPYFM2
Eugenics: A Very Short Introduction
In 1883, Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, coined the word "eugenics" to express his dream of perfecting the human race by applying the laws of genetic heredity. Adapting Darwin's theory of evolution to human society, eugenics soon became a powerful, international movement, committed to using the principles of heredity and statistics to encourage healthy and discourage unhealthy...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780199385904ISBN-10:199385904UPC:9780199385904Book Category:Science, MedicalBook Subcategory:History, Life Sciences, GeneticsBook Topic:Genetics & GenomicsSize:6.80 x 4.40 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCNDYPYFM2
Philippa Levine is the Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities and the Co-Director of the Program in British Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics and she has published extensively on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and British Empire history, as well as on science, sexuality, and medicine.
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