Eugenics, human genetics, and human failings : the Eugenics Society, its sources and its critics in Britain / Pauline M.H. Mazumdar.
Based upon archival material newly available to researchers, this study follows the history of the eugenics movement from its roots in late 19th-century social reform to its heyday in the early 1900s as the source of a science of human genetics.
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1992.
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Table of Contents:
- BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; 1. THE EUGENICS EDUCATION SOCIETY; 2. THE AGE OF PEDIGREES; 3. IDEOLOGY AND METHOD; 4. THE ATTACK FROM THE LEFT; 5. HUMAN GENETICS AND THE EUGENICS PROBLEMATIC; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.