Controlling Human Heredity, 1865 to the PresentHumanities Press, 1995 - 158 Seiten In the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century, it was widely assumed that society ought to foster the breeding of those who possessed favorable traits and discourage the breeding of those who did not. Controlled human breeding, "eugenics" as it was labeled by Francis Galton, seemed only good common sense. 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. The eugenics movement appeared to be dead - associated with race and class prejudice, in particular the crimes of the Third Reich - or was it just sleeping? Has eugenics returned in the guise of medical genetics? In Controlling Human Heredity, Professor Paul aims to bridge the gap between expert and lay understandings of the history of eugenics and thereby enrich the debate on the perplexing contemporary choices in genetic medicine. |
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... inheritance might work : minute particles thrown off by various cells circulate through the body and ultimately concentrate in the " germ cells . " This process explains how changes in parents ' bodies could be manifested in their ...
... inheritance might work : minute particles thrown off by various cells circulate through the body and ultimately concentrate in the " germ cells . " This process explains how changes in parents ' bodies could be manifested in their ...
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... inheritance of acquired characters was cause for relief , since it implied that neither the debauchery of the wealthy nor the sordid habits of oppressed workers need produce any permanent degradation ( 1900 , 2 : 505 ) . However , few ...
... inheritance of acquired characters was cause for relief , since it implied that neither the debauchery of the wealthy nor the sordid habits of oppressed workers need produce any permanent degradation ( 1900 , 2 : 505 ) . However , few ...
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... inheritance of a general mental ability and attributed most crime , sexual licentiousness , and idleness to its absence . The Kallikak Family both reflected and reinforced this view . And most of the newer family studies followed suit ...
... inheritance of a general mental ability and attributed most crime , sexual licentiousness , and idleness to its absence . The Kallikak Family both reflected and reinforced this view . And most of the newer family studies followed suit ...
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Evolutionary Anxieties | 22 |
From Soft to Hard Heredity | 40 |
Eugenic Solutions | 72 |
Urheberrecht | |
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