Alison (Hrsg.) Bashford

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics

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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 indi… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Levine, Philippa (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-19-537314-1
EAN: 9780195373141
Produktnummer: 22183965
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 586 S.
Masse: H25.6 cm x B18.2 cm x D5.3 cm 1'185 g
Gewicht: 1185

Über den Autor

Alison Bashford Associate Professor of of History, University of Sydney; Philippa Levine Professor of History and English, University of Southern California