| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 586 pages) |
| Series |
Oxford handbooks |
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Oxford handbooks.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Eugenics and the modern world / Philippa Levine & Alison Bashford -- The Darwinian context: evolution and inheritance / Diane B. Paul & James Moore -- Anthropology, colonialism, and eugenics / Phillipa Levine -- Race, science, and eugenics in the twentieth century / Marius Turda -- Eugenics and the science of eugenics / Nils Roll-Hansen -- Fertility control: eugenics, neo-Malthusianism, and feminism / Susanne Klausen & Alison Bashford -- Disability, psychiatry, and eugenics / Mathew Thomson -- Eugenics and the state: policy-making in comparative perspective / Veronique Mottier -- Internationalism, cosmopolitanism, and eugenics / Alison Bashford -- Gender and sexuality: a global tour and compass / Alexandra Minna Stern -- Eugenics and genocide / A. Dirk Moses & Dan Stone -- Eugenics in Britain: the view from the metropole / Lucy Bland & Lesley A. Hall -- South Asia's eugenic past / Sarah Hodges -- Eugenics in Australia and New Zealand: laboratories of racial science / Stephen Garton -- Eugenics in China and Hong Kong: nationalism and colonialism 1890s-1940s / Yuehtsen Juliette Chung -- South Africa: paradoxes in the place of race / Saul Dubow -- Eugenics in colonial Kenya / Chloe Campbell -- Eugenics in postcolonial Southeast Asia / Sunil S. Amrith -- German eugenics and the wider world: beyond the racial state / Paul Weindling -- Eugenics in France and the colonies / Richard S. Fogarty & Michael A. Osborne -- Eugenics in the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies / Hans Pols -- The Scandinavian states: reformed eugenics applied / Mattias Tyden -- The first-wave eugenic revolution in southern Europe: science sans frontiers / Maria Sophia Quine -- Eugenics in Eastern Europe 1870s-1945 / Maria Bucur -- Eugenics in Russia and the Soviet Union / Nikolai Krementsov -- Eugenics in Japan: sanguinous repair / Jennifer Robetson -- Eugenics in interwar Iran / Cyrus Schayegh -- Eugenics and the Jews / Raphael Falk -- Eugenics policy and practice in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Mexico / Patience A. Schell -- The path of eugenics in Brazil: dilemmas of miscegenation / Gilberto Hochman, Nisia Trindade Lima, & Marcos Chor Maio -- Eugenics in the United States / Wendy Kline -- Eugenics in Canada: a checkered history 1850s-1990s / Carolyn Strange and Jennifer A. Stephen -- Epilogue: Where did eugenics go / Alison Bashford |
| Summary |
Eugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late 19th to the mid-20th century in a transnational phenomenon that informed social and scientific policy across the political spectrum. This book dispels the automatic and exclusive link between eugenics and the Holocaust |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Eugenics -- History
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Eugenics -- history
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Society.
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Eugenics.
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Eugenik
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Eugenetica.
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Rassenhygiene -- Geschichte.
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Eugenik.
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Eugenik -- historia.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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Handboeken (vorm)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bashford, Alison, 1963- editor.
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Levine, Philippa, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780199940417 |
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019994041X |
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9780199706532 |
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0199706530 |
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