Eugenics, Human Genetics and Human Failings: The Eugenics Society, its sources and its critics in Britain / Edition 1

by Pauline Mazumdar

Overview

This scholarly and penetrating study of eugenics is a major contribution to our understanding of the complex relation between science, ideology and class.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415044240
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/07/1991
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

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