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

    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