Both the beginner and the seasoned scholar should be able to find new and intriguing perspectives in this well-edited volume.
Maria Björkman, BJHS
Eugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in a remarkable transnational phenomenon that informed social and scientific policy across the political spectrum, from liberal welfare measures in emerging social-democratic states, to feminist ambitions for birth control, to public health campaigns, to totalitarian dreams of the "perfectibility of man." This book dispels for uninitiated readers the automatic and apparently exclusive link between eugenics and the Holocaust: the popularity of eugenics in Japan, for example, comes as a surprise. It is the first world history of eugenics and an indispensable core text for both teaching and research in what has become a sprawling but ever more important field. Eugenics has accumulated generations of interest as part of the question of how experts think about the connections between biology, human capacity and policy. In the past and the present, eugenics speaks to questions of race, class, gender and sex, evolution, governance, nationalism, disability, and the social implications of science. In the current climate, where the human genome project, stem cell research, and new reproductive technologies have proven so controversial, the history of eugenics has much to teach us about the relationship between scientific research, technology, and human ethical decision-making.
This volume offers both a nineteenth-century context for understanding the emergence of eugenics and a consideration of contemporary manifestations of, and relationships to eugenics. It is the definitive text for students and researchers to consult for careful and up-to-date summaries, new substantive fields where very little work is currently available (e.g. eugenics in Iran, South Africa, and South East Asia); transnational thematic lines of inquiry; the integration of literature on colonialism; and connections to contemporary issues.
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CONTRIBUTORS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; EUGENICS AND THE MODERN WORLD; PHILIPPA LEVINE AND ALISON BASHFORD; PART ONE: TRANSNATIONAL THEMES IN THE HISTORY OF EUGENICS; DIANE B. PAUL AND JAMES MOORE; PHILIPPA LEVINE; MARIUS TURDA; NILS ROLL-HANSEN; SUSANNE KLAUSEN AND ALISON BASHFORD; MATHEW THOMSON; VERONIQUE MOTTIER; ALISON BASHFORD; ALEXANDRA MINNA STERN; A. DIRK MOSES AND DAN STONE; PART TWO: NATIONAL/COLONIAL FORMATIONS; LUCY BLAND AND LESLEY HALL; SARAH HODGES; STEPHEN GARTON; YUEHTSEN JULIETTE CHUNG; SAUL DUBOW; CHLOE CAMPBELL; SUNIL S. AMRITH; PAUL WEINDLING; RICHARD S. FOGARTY AND MICHAEL A. OSBORNE; HANS POLS; MATTIAS TYDEN; MARIA SOPHIA QUINE; MARIA BUCUR; NIKOLAI KREMENTSOV; JENNIFER ROBERTSON; CYRUS SCHAYEGH; RAPHAEL FALK; PATIENCE A. SCHELL; GILBERTO HOCHMAN, NISIA TRINDADE LIMA, AND MARCOS CHOR MAIO; WENDY KLINE; CAROLYN STRANGE AND JENNIFER A. STEPHEN; EPILOGUE: WHERE DID EUGENICS GO?; ALISON BASHFORD; CHRONOLOGY; INDEX
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Both the beginner and the seasoned scholar should be able to find new and intriguing perspectives in this well-edited volume.
Selling point: the first comprehensive collection of essays on the history of eugenics
Selling point: contributors are leading authorities in their geographic fields
Selling point: world history approach
Selling point: covers the nineteenth century to the post-World War II era
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Alison Bashford is Professor of Modern History at the University of Sydney. She has published widely on the modern history of science and medicine, including Purity and Pollution and Imperial Hygiene, and has co-edited Contagion, Isolation, and Medicine at the Border.
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.
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Selling point: the first comprehensive collection of essays on the history of eugenics
Selling point: contributors are leading authorities in their geographic fields
Selling point: world history approach
Selling point: covers the nineteenth century to the post-World War II era
Les mer
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780195373141
Publisert
2010
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
1148 gr
Høyde
178 mm
Bredde
254 mm
Dybde
44 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
608