Eugenics, Human Genetics and Human Failings

The Eugenics Society, its sources and its critics in Britain

Pauline Mazumdar (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

384 Seiten

2011
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-51481-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Pauline Mazumdar

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.11.2011
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	710 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-415-51481-9 / 0415514819
ISBN-13	978-0-415-51481-1 / 9780415514811
Zustand	Neuware