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Author : David Redvaldsen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031722906
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (317 download)
Download or read book A History of British Eugenics since 1865 written by David Redvaldsen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chloe Campbell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719071607
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (716 download)
Download or read book Race and Empire written by Chloe Campbell and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race and Empire tells the story of a short-lived but vehement eugenics movement that emerged among a group of Europeans in Kenya in the 1930s, unleashing a set of writings on racial differences in intelligence more extreme than that emanating from any other British colony in the twentieth century. The Kenyan eugenics movement of the 1930s adapted British ideas to the colonial environment: in all its extremity, Kenyan eugenics was not simply a bizarre and embarrassing colonial mutation, as it was later dismissed, but a logical extension of British eugenics in a colonial context. By tracing the history of eugenic thought in Kenya, the books shows how the movement took on a distinctive colonial character, driven by settler political preoccupations and reacting to increasingly outspoken African demands for better, and more independent, education. The economic fragility of Kenya in the early 1930s made the eugenicists particularly dependent on British financial support. Ultimately, the suspicious response of the Colonial Office and the Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald, backed up by a growing expert concern about race in science, led to the failure of Kenyan eugenics to gain the necessary British backing. Despite this lack of concrete success, eugenic theories on race and intelligence were widely supported by the medical profession in Kenya, as well as powerful members of the official and non-official European settler population. The long-term failures of the eugenics movement should not blind us to its influence among the social and administrative elite of colonial Kenya. Through a close examination of attitudes towards race and intelligence in a British colony, Race and Empire reveals how eugenics was central to colonial racial theories before World War Two.
Author : Lyndsay Andrew Farrall
Publisher : Sts Occasional Papers
ISBN 13 : 9781787510012
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Origins and Growth of the English Eugenics Movement, 1865-1925 written by Lyndsay Andrew Farrall and published by Sts Occasional Papers. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farrall offers a history of the Biometric School of eugenics. Key figures included Francis Galton and Karl Pearson. Galton developed the Eugenics Record Office, which became the Galton Laboratory for National Eugenics at University College London. Farrall tracks the development of these units and their campaigns for political action. Facsimile.
Author : Alison Bashford
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195373146
Total Pages : 607 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics written by Alison Bashford and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2010-09-24 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philippa Levine is the Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin. Her books include Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire, and The British Empire, Sunrise to Sunset. --
Author : Krementsov Nikolai
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783745128
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (451 download)
Download or read book With and Without Galton written by Krementsov Nikolai and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1865, British polymath Francis Galton published his initial thoughts about the scientific field that would become 'eugenics.' The same year, Russian physician Vasilii Florinskii addressed similar issues in a sizeable treatise, entitled Human Perfection and Degeneration. Initially unheralded, Florinskii's book would go on to have a remarkable afterlife in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Russia. In this lucid and insightful work, Nikolai Krementsov argues that the concept of eugenics brings together ideas, values, practices, and fears energised by a focus on the future. It has proven so seductive to different groups over time because it provides a way to grapple with fundamental existential questions of human nature and destiny. With and Without Galton develops this argument by tracing the life-story of Florinskii's monograph from its uncelebrated arrival amid the Russian empire's Great Reforms, to its reissue after the Bolshevik Revolution, its decline under Stalinism, and its subsequent resurgence: first, as a founding document of medical genetics, and most recently, as a manifesto for nationalists and racial purists. Krementsov's meticulously researched 'biography of a book' sheds light not only on the peculiar fate of eugenics in Russia, but also on its convoluted transnational history, elucidating the field's protean nature and its continuing and contested appeal to diverse audiences, multiple local trajectories, and global trends. It is required reading for historians of eugenics, science, medicine, education, literature, and Russia, and it will also appeal to the general reader looking for a deeper understanding of this challenging subject.
Author : Rama S. Singh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521620703
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Thinking about Evolution written by Rama S. Singh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 2001, this is the second of two volumes published by Cambridge University Press in honour of Richard Lewontin. This second volume of essays honours the philosophical, historical and political dimensions of his work. It is fitting that the volume covers such a wide range of perspectives on modern biology, given the range of Lewontin's own contributions. He is not just a very successful practitioner of evolutionary genetics, but a rigorous critic of the practices of genetics and evolutionary biology and an articulate analyst of the social, political and economic contexts and consequences of genetic and evolutionary research. The volume begins with an essay by Lewontin on Natural History and Formalism in Evolutionary Genetics, and includes contributions by former students, post-docs, colleagues and collaborators, which cover issues ranging from the history and conceptual foundations of evolutionary biology and genetics, to the implications of human genetic diversity.
Author : G.R Searle
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9789028602366
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Eugenics and Politics in Britain, 1900-1914 written by G.R Searle and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1976-11-30 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eugenics, to quote the definition of the man who coined the word, Francis Galton, is 'the study of agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either 1 physically or mentally'. Eugenists believe that the knowledge so acquired can be applied to the practical task of raising the level of fitness in the human race. Man, Prometheus-like, is at last acquiring the power to control his own genetic future. To carry on the eugenical work pioneered by Galton, a Eugenics Society is in existence at the present day. Its members, predominantly academics and scientists, hope collectively to influence government policies through normal pressure-group activities. But, however seriously they take eugenics, probably few of them see themselves as having a mission to save civilization from imminent collapse, or seriously expect that eugenics will shortly replace the programmes and ideologies of the existing political parties; nor would they present eugenics as a science of man that was making redundant all previous speculations in philosophy, history, and sociology. These, however, were precisely the aims and ambitions of those who formed the original 'Eugenics Education Society' in the winter of 1907-8.
Author : Dan Stone
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780853239970
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (399 download)
Download or read book Breeding Superman written by Dan Stone and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth A. Kaye specializes in communications as part of her coaching and consulting practice. She has edited Requirements for Certification since the 2000-01 edition.
Author : Diane B. Paul
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791438213
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (382 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Heredity written by Diane B. Paul and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the political forces underlying shifts in thinking about the respective influence of heredity and environment in shaping human behavior, and the feasibility and morality of eugenics.
Author : Keith Breckenridge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107077842
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Biometric State written by Keith Breckenridge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking study of South Africa's role as a site for global experiments in biometric identification throughout the twentieth century.
Author : Donald A. MacKenzie
Publisher : Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780852243695
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (436 download)
Download or read book Statistics in Britain, 1865-1930 written by Donald A. MacKenzie and published by Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amir Teicher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110849949X
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Social Mendelism written by Amir Teicher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will revolutionize reader's understanding of the principles of modern genetics, Nazi racial policies and the relationship between them.
Author : Madison Grant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
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Download or read book The Passing of the Great Race written by Madison Grant and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francesco Cassata
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9639776831
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (397 download)
Download or read book Building the New Man written by Francesco Cassata and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on previously unexplored archival documentation, this book offers the first general overview of the history of Italian eugenics, not limited to the decades of Fascist regime, but instead ranging from the beginning of the 1900s to the first half of the 1970s. The Author discusses several fundamental themes of the comparative history of eugenics: the importance of the Latin eugenic model; the relationship between eugenics and fascism; the influence of Catholicism on the eugenic discourse and the complex links between genetics and eugenics. It examines the Liberal pre-fascist period and the post-WW2 transition from fascist and racial eugenics to medical and human genetics. As far as fascist eugenics is concerned, the book provides a refreshing analysis, considering Italian eugenics as the most important case-study in order to define Latin eugenics as an alternative model to its Anglo-American, German and Scandinavian counterparts. Analyses in detail the nature-nurture debate during the State racist campaign in fascist Italy (1938–1943) as a boundary tool in the contraposition between the different institutional, political and ideological currents of fascist racism.
Author : George William Hunter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Civic Biology written by George William Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pauline Mazumdar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134950217
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Eugenics, Human Genetics and Human Failings written by Pauline Mazumdar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-12-20 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scholarly and penetrating study of eugenics is a major contribution to our understanding of the complex relation between science, ideology and class.
Author : Katharina Rowold
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134625847
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book The Educated Woman written by Katharina Rowold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-02-09 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Educated Woman is a comparative study of the ideas on female nature that informed debates on women’s higher education in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in three western European countries. Exploring the multi-layered roles of science and medicine in constructions of sexual difference in these debates, the book also pays attention to the variety of ways in which contemporary feminists negotiated and reconstituted conceptions of the female mind and its relationship to the body. While recognising similarities, Rowold shows how in each country the higher education debates and the underlying conceptions of women’s nature were shaped by distinct historical contexts.
