1st Edition
Eugenics, Human Genetics and Human Failings The Eugenics Society, its sources and its critics in Britain
By Pauline Mazumdar
Copyright 1992
384 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
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This scholarly and penetrating study of eugenics is a major contribution to our understanding of the complex relation between science, ideology and class.
Introduction: 1. The Eugenics Education Society: the Setting and the Programme, 2. The Age of Pedigrees: the Methodology of Eugenics, 1900-1920, 3. Ideology and Method: R A Fisher and Research in Eugenics, 1920-1930, 4. The Attack from the Left: Marxism and the new Mathematical Techniques of the Thirties, 5. Human Genetics and the Eugenics Problematic, 1930-1950, Epilogue and Conclusion
Biography
Pauline Mazumdar
