The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics
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 andapparently 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 indis…
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Weitere Autoren: Levine, Philippa (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of Texas, Austin) (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-994505-4
- EAN: 9780199945054
- Produktnummer: 22188910
- Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 608 S.
- Masse: H24.7 cm x B17.3 cm x D4.0 cm 926 g
- Gewicht: 926
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
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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