Controlling Human Heredity, 1865 to the PresentHumanities Press, 1995 - Broj stranica: 158 In the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century, it was widely assumed that society ought to foster the breeding of those who possessed favorable traits and discourage the breeding of those who did not. Controlled human breeding, "eugenics" as it was labeled by Francis Galton, seemed only good common sense. How did eugenics come to exert such powerful and broad appeal? What events shaped its direction? Whose interests did it finally serve? Why did it fall into disrepute? Has it survived in other guises? These are some of the questions that Diane Paul sets out to answer - questions that have acquired a new urgency in light of developments in genetic medicine. The eugenics movement appeared to be dead - associated with race and class prejudice, in particular the crimes of the Third Reich - or was it just sleeping? Has eugenics returned in the guise of medical genetics? In Controlling Human Heredity, Professor Paul aims to bridge the gap between expert and lay understandings of the history of eugenics and thereby enrich the debate on the perplexing contemporary choices in genetic medicine. |
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... noted : " If nothing that the individual gains by the most heroic or the most assiduous effort can by any possibility be handed on to posterity , the incentive to effort is in great part removed . . . . If , as Mr. Galton puts it ...
... noted : " If nothing that the individual gains by the most heroic or the most assiduous effort can by any possibility be handed on to posterity , the incentive to effort is in great part removed . . . . If , as Mr. Galton puts it ...
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... noted that Darwin expressed gloomy views about the future on the ground that natural selection no longer operated in human societies and that the least fit were outbreeding the most ( Wallace 1890 , 51 ) . Indeed , Darwin came to fear ...
... noted that Darwin expressed gloomy views about the future on the ground that natural selection no longer operated in human societies and that the least fit were outbreeding the most ( Wallace 1890 , 51 ) . Indeed , Darwin came to fear ...
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... noted that no sources were provided for any of the book's claims but nonetheless pronounced it " a work of solid merit . " He found Grant's theory of the special value of Nordic blood largely convincing ( 1918 , 419 ) . In a later ...
... noted that no sources were provided for any of the book's claims but nonetheless pronounced it " a work of solid merit . " He found Grant's theory of the special value of Nordic blood largely convincing ( 1918 , 419 ) . In a later ...
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