In The Name Of Eugenics Genetics And The Uses Of Human Heredity
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Author | : Daniel J. Kevles |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780674445574 |
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A rich narrative about the science of "improving" the human race, from the 19th century to genetic engineering today.
Author | : Jan Sapp |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 1987-05-14 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0195364686 |
Download Beyond the Gene Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The scope and significance of cytoplasmic inheritance has been the subject of one of the longest controversies in the history of genetics. In the first major book on the history of this subject, Jan Sapp analyses the persistent attempts of investigators of non-Mendelian inheritance to establish their claims in the face of strong resistance from nucleo-centric geneticists and classical neo-Darwinians. A new perspective on the history of genetics is offered as he explores the conflicts which have shaped theoretical thinking about heredity and evolution throughout the century: materialism vs. vitalism, reductionism vs. holism, preformation vs. epigenesis, neo-Darwinism vs. new-Lamarckism, and gradualism vs. saltationism. In so doing, Sapp highlights competitive struggles for power among individuals and disciplinary groups. He accepts that political interests and general social contexts may directly affect scientific ideas, but develops the stronger thesis that social interests inside science itself are always involved in the content of scientific knowledge. He goes on to show that there are no neutral judges in scientific controversies and investigates the social strategies and methodological rhetoric used by scientists when they defend or oppose a particular theory. At the same time, Sapp illustrates the social constraints that ensure the high cost and risk of entertaining unorthodox theories in the sciences.
Author | : Diane B. Paul |
Publisher | : Humanities Press International |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : |
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How did eugenics come to exert such powerful and broad appeal? What events shaped its direction? Whose interests did it finally serve? Why did it fall into disrepute? Has it survived in other guises? These are some of the questions that Diane Paul sets out to answer - questions that have acquired a new urgency in light of developments in genetic medicine.
Author | : Philippa Levine |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Eugenics |
ISBN | : 0199385904 |
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A concise and gripping account of eugenics from its origins in the twentieth century and beyond.
Author | : Theodore M. Porter |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 2020-07-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691203237 |
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"In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most important of these causes. As doctors and state officials steadily lost faith in the capacity of asylum care to stem the terrible increase of insanity, they began emphasizing the need to curb the reproduction of the insane. They became obsessed with identifying weak or tainted families and anticipating the outcomes of their marriages. Genetics in the Madhouse is the untold story of how the collection and sorting of hereditary data in mental hospitals, schools for 'feebleminded' children, and prisons gave rise to a new science of human heredity. In this compelling book, Theodore Porter draws on untapped archival evidence from across Europe and North America to bring to light the hidden history behind modern genetics. He looks at the institutional use of pedigree charts, censuses of mental illness, medical-social surveys, and other data techniques--innovative quantitative practices that were worked out in the madhouse long before the manipulation of DNA became possible in the lab. Porter argues that asylum doctors developed many of the ideologies and methods of what would come to be known as eugenics, and deepens our appreciation of the moral issues at stake in data work conducted on the border of subjectivity and science. A bold rethinking of asylum work, Genetics in the Madhouse shows how heredity was a human science as well as a medical and biological one"--Jacket.
Author | : Diane B. Paul |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780791438213 |
Download The Politics of Heredity Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Explores the political forces underlying shifts in thinking about the respective influence of heredity and environment in shaping human behavior, and the feasibility and morality of eugenics.
Author | : Alexandra Minna Stern |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520285069 |
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"With an emphasis on the American West, Eugenic Nation explores the long and unsettled history of eugenics in the United States. This expanded second edition includes shocking details that demonstrate that the story is far from over. Alexandra Minna Stern explores the unauthorized sterilization of female inmates in California state prisons and ongoing reparations for North Carolina victims of sterilization, as well as the topics of race-based intelligence tests, school segregation, the U.S. Border Patrol, tropical medicine, the environmental movement, and opposition to better breeding. Radically new and relevant, this edition draws from recently uncovered historical records to demonstrate patterns of racial bias in California's sterilization program and to recover personal experiences of reproductive injustice. Stern connects the eugenic past to the genomic present with attention to the ethical and social implications of emerging genetic technologies"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Nancy Leys Stepan |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1996-11-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501702254 |
Download The Hour of Eugenics" Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Eugenics was a term coined in 1883 to name the scientific and social theory which advocated "race improvement" through selective human breeding. In Europe and the United States the eugenics movement found many supporters before it was finally discredited by its association with the racist ideology of Nazi Germany. Examining for the first time how eugenics was taken up by scientists and social reformers in Latin America, Nancy Leys Stepan compares the eugenics movements in Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina with the more familiar cases of Britain, the United States, and Germany.In this highly original account, Stepan sheds new light on the role of science in reformulating issues of race, gender, reproduction, and public health in an era when the focus on national identity was particularly intense. Drawing upon a rich body of evidence concerning the technical publications and professional meetings of Latin American eugenicists, she examines how they adapted eugenic principles to local contexts between the world wars. Stepan shows that Latin American eugenicists diverged considerably from their counterparts in Europe and the United States in their ideological approach and their interpretations of key texts concerning heredity.
Author | : Donald K. Pickens |
Publisher | : [Nashville] : Vanderbilt University Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
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"Bibliographical essay": pages 217-251.
Author | : Frederick Osborn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Eugenics |
ISBN | : |
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