| Description |
1 online resource (468 pages) |
| Contents |
""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chronology of the Biological Concept of Unfit People""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I: Before Darwin""; ""1 Who Are the Unfit?""; ""2 The Unfit in Biblical Times""; ""3 Self- Pollution and Declining Health""; ""4 Degeneracy Theory: Identifying the Innately Depraved and the Victims of Vicious Upbringing""; ""5 Dangerous Classes and Social Degeneracy""; ""6 Poor Laws and the Descent to Degeneracy""; ""7 The Perfectibility of Man Confronts Vice and Misery""; ""8 Evolutionary Ethics before Darwin""; ""9 Hereditary Units and the Pessimism of the Germ Plasm"" |
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""Part II: Eugenics Takes the Spotlight""""10 The Jukes and the Tribe of Ishmael""; ""11 A Minor Prophet of Democracy ""; ""12 Isolating the Unfit through Compulsory Sterilization""; ""13 The Emergence of Two Wings of the Eugenics Movement ""; ""14 Europe's Undesirables Replace the Domestic Unfit""; ""15 Eugenics Becomes an International Movement""; ""Part III: Racism, the Holocaust, and Beyond""; ""16 Racism and Human Inequality""; ""17 Jews as People, Race, Culture, Religion, and Victims""; ""18 The Smoke of Auschwitz""; ""19 The Abandonment of Eugenics by Genetics"" |
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""20 The Future of Eugenics""""21 Dealing with Life's Imperfections""; ""Appendices""; ""Appendix 1: Flow Diagrams and the History of Ideas ""; ""Appendix 2: Useful Books on the History of Eugenics""; ""Appendix 3: Bibliography""; ""Index"" |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-426) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Eugenics -- History
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Eugenics
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780879695873 |
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0879695870 |
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