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Book Bibliographia Eugenica

Download or read book Bibliographia Eugenica written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book With and Without Galton

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.

Book Eugenic Nation

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  • Author : Alexandra Minna Stern
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 0520285069
  • Pages : 422 pages

Download or read book Eugenic Nation written by Alexandra Minna Stern and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With an emphasis on the American West, Eugenic Nation explores the long and unsettled history of eugenics in the United States. This expanded second edition includes shocking details that demonstrate that the story is far from over. Alexandra Minna Stern explores the unauthorized sterilization of female inmates in California state prisons and ongoing reparations for North Carolina victims of sterilization, as well as the topics of race-based intelligence tests, school segregation, the U.S. Border Patrol, tropical medicine, the environmental movement, and opposition to better breeding. Radically new and relevant, this edition draws from recently uncovered historical records to demonstrate patterns of racial bias in California's sterilization program and to recover personal experiences of reproductive injustice. Stern connects the eugenic past to the genomic present with attention to the ethical and social implications of emerging genetic technologies"--Provided by publisher.

Book Building a Better Race

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  • Author : Wendy Kline
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2005-11-21
  • ISBN : 0520246748
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Building a Better Race written by Wendy Kline and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-11-21 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Building a Better Race powerfully demonstrates the centrality of eugenics during the first half of the twentieth century. Kline persuasively uncovers eugenics' unexpected centrality to modern assumptions about marriage, the family, and morality, even as late as the 1950s. The book is full of surprising connections and stories, and provides crucial new perspectives illuminating the history of eugenics, gender and normative twentieth-century sexuality."—Gail Bederman, author of Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the US, 1880-1917 "A strikingly fresh approach to eugenics.... Kline's work places eugenicists squarely at the center of modern reevaluations of females sexuality, sexual morality in general, changing gender roles, and modernizing family ideology. She insists that eugenic ideas had more power and were less marginal in public discourse than other historians have indicated."—Regina Morantz-Sanchez, author of Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn

Book Eugenical News

Download or read book Eugenical News written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Bibliography of Eugenics

Download or read book A Bibliography of Eugenics written by Samuel Jackson Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliographia genetica

Download or read book Bibliographia genetica written by and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Defending the Master Race

Download or read book Defending the Master Race written by Jonathan Spiro and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2009-12-15 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical rediscovery of one of the heroic founders of the conservation movement who was also one of the most infamous racists in American history

Book Eugenics

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1928
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 684 pages

Download or read book Eugenics written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eugenia

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  • Author : Mark Tedeschi
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2012-09-01
  • ISBN : 1922052329
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Eugenia written by Mark Tedeschi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true crime account of the man known as Eugenia Falleni, who in 1920 was charged with the murder of his wife. Assigned female at birth, Eugenia Falleni lived in Australia for twenty-two years under the name Harry Crawford, and during that time officially married twice. He lived a full married life with his first wife, Annie, for four years before Annie realised that her husband was transgender. They continued to live together for eight months before they went on a bush picnic, when Annie mysteriously died. Her body was not identified for almost three years, and during this time Harry married again, this time to Lizzie. When Harry was finally arrested and charged with Annie's murder, the police attempted to tell Lizzie that her husband was biologically female. She laughed at them – she thought she was pregnant to him. This is the story of one of the most extraordinary criminal trials in legal history. The book traces Harry’s history: from being raised as a girl in an Italian immigrant family in New Zealand, to his brutal treatment when he first began living as a man, and his twenty-two years in Sydney including his two marriages. Finally, the trial of Eugenia Falleni for Annie's murder is extensively analysed by the author, Senior Crown Prosecutor Mark Tedeschi KC, one of Australia's foremost criminal law barristers. ‘Outstanding new true-crime … A grimly fascinating and extraordinary tale.’The Age ‘In the hands of NSW Senior Crown Prosecutor Mark Tedeschi, Eugenia’s story is gripping.’Australian Women’s Weekly ‘Tedeschi writes with a deep compassion ... and makes us all consider how fear, prejudice and ignorance can affect lives, even today.’Herald Sun

Book The Ethics of the New Eugenics

Download or read book The Ethics of the New Eugenics written by Calum MacKellar and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategies or decisions aimed at affecting, in a manner considered to be positive, the genetic heritage of a child in the context of human reproduction are increasingly being accepted in contemporary society. As a result, unnerving similarities between earlier selection ideology so central to the discredited eugenic regimes of the 20th century and those now on offer suggest that a new era of eugenics has dawned. The time is ripe, therefore, for considering and evaluating from an ethical perspective both current and future selection practices. This inter-disciplinary volume blends research from embryology, genetics, philosophy, sociology, psychology, and history. In so doing, it constructs a thorough picture of the procedures emerging from today's reproductive developments, including a rigorous ethical argumentation concerning the possible advantages and risks related to the new eugenics. Calum MacKellar is Director of Research of the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics, Edinburgh, and Visiting Professor of Bioethics at St Mary's University College, London, UK. Christopher Bechtel holds a degree in philosophy and is a Research Fellow with the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics, Edinburgh, UK.

Book  Destined to Fail

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  • Author : Julia Eklund Koza
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2021-08-31
  • ISBN : 0472132601
  • Pages : 813 pages

Download or read book Destined to Fail written by Julia Eklund Koza and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 813 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How eugenics became a keystone of modern educational policy

Book An Image of God

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  • Author : Sharon M. Leon
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2013-06-05
  • ISBN : 022603903X
  • Pages : 237 pages

Download or read book An Image of God written by Sharon M. Leon and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-06-05 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the first half of the twentieth century, supporters of the eugenics movement offered an image of a racially transformed America by curtailing the reproduction of “unfit” members of society. Through institutionalization, compulsory sterilization, the restriction of immigration and marriages, and other methods, eugenicists promised to improve the population—a policy agenda that was embraced by many leading intellectuals and public figures. But Catholic activists and thinkers across the United States opposed many of these measures, asserting that “every man, even a lunatic, is an image of God, not a mere animal." In An Image of God, Sharon Leon examines the efforts of American Catholics to thwart eugenic policies, illuminating the ways in which Catholic thought transformed the public conversation about individual rights, the role of the state, and the intersections of race, community, and family. Through an examination of the broader questions raised in this debate, Leon casts new light on major issues that remain central in American political life today: the institution of marriage, the role of government, and the separation of church and state. This is essential reading in the history of religion, science, politics, and human rights.

Book Essays in Eugenics

Download or read book Essays in Eugenics written by Francis Galton and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Disabled Upon Arrival

Download or read book Disabled Upon Arrival written by Jay Timothy Dolmage and published by . This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A rhetorical examination of the spaces, technologies, and discourses of immigration restriction during the peak period of North American immigration in the early twentieth century. Links anti-immigration rhetoric to eugenics--and argues racist and ableist ideas about bodily values have never really gone away"--

Book The Progress of Eugenics

Download or read book The Progress of Eugenics written by Caleb Williams Saleeby and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eugenics

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  • Author : Philippa Levine
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 0199385904
  • Pages : 167 pages

Download or read book Eugenics written by Philippa Levine and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise and gripping account of eugenics from its origins in the twentieth century and beyond.