Автор: Meloni, M. Название: Political biology ISBN: 1349677361 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349677368 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 41920.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book explores the socio-political implications of human heredity from the second half of the nineteenth century to the present postgenomic moment.
Автор: Nancy Leys Stepan Название: The Hour of Eugenics ": Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America ISBN: 0801425697 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801425691 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 53770.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Stepan's warning regarding the politics of scientific interpretation in the future seems most appropriate.... This is an important book, meticulously done, and will be of significant value to Latin Americanists (especially Brazilianists), to historians of science and medicine and to those concerned with the history of ideas as well as those interested in the rise (and fall?) of eugenics. ?American Historical Review
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.
Автор: Meloni, Maurizio Название: Political biology ISBN: 1137377712 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137377715 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 81050.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book explores the socio-political implications of human heredity from the second half of the nineteenth century to the present postgenomic moment. It discusses eugenics, the modern synthesis, and epigenetics. Meloni argues that thanks to findings in epigenetics we may be witnessing a return to `soft heredity`.
The specter of early twentieth-century eugenics-with its goal of preventing the "unfit" from reproducing through forced sterilization-still haunts us in this era of genetic engineering.
Conrad B. Quintyn, an associate professor of biological anthropology at Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, calls this the new eugenics era because geneticists have begun to explore ways to prevent and repair defective genes in all humans.
In this book, he considers whether genetic engineering will exacerbate social injustices and/or lead to a public safety issue.
For instance, in 2012, virologists in the U.S. and the Netherlands genetically engineered avian (bird) flu to be more transmissible between mammals. These scientists argued that virus transmission between mammals enables us to make vaccines to prevent pandemics. They never considered what would happen if the virus accidentally escaped the laboratory.
Meanwhile, some scientists are experimenting with "designer babies," altering genes to remove diseases and even programming certain traits.
Join the author as he considers whether scientists are playing God as well as the risks we face by altering genetics in The New Eugenics.
Автор: Duster, Troy Название: Backdoor to Eugenics ISBN: 0415946743 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415946742 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 63280.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Hanson Название: Eugenics, Literature, and Culture in Post-war Britain ISBN: 1138109495 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138109490 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 47970.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book explores eugenics in its wider social context and literary representations in post-war Britain, tracing the expression of eugenic ideas across disciplinary boundaries and in both high and low culture and demonstrating its powerful and pervasive influence as a cultural movement.
Автор: Campbell Chloe Название: Race and Empire: Eugenics in Colonial Kenya ISBN: 0719071615 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780719071614 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 28150.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The story of a short-lived but vehement eugenics movement that emerged among a group of Europeans in Kenya in the 1930s, unleashing a set of writings on racial differences in intelligence more extreme than that emanating from any other British colony in the twentieth century. -- .
Автор: Clare Hanson Название: Eugenics, Literature, and Culture in Post-war Britain ISBN: 0415806984 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415806985 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 153120.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book explores eugenics in its wider social context and literary representations in post-war Britain, tracing the expression of eugenic ideas across disciplinary boundaries and in both high and low culture and demonstrating its powerful and pervasive influence as a cultural movement.
The History of East-Central European Eugenics, 1900-1945 redefines the European history of eugenics by exploring the ideological transmission of eugenics internationally and its application locally in East-Central Europe. It includes 100 primary sources translated from the East-Central European languages into English for the first time and key contributions from leading scholars in the field from around Europe. This volume examines the main eugenic organisations, as well as individuals and policies that shaped eugenics in Austria, Poland, the former Czechoslovakia, the former Yugoslavia, Hungary and Romania. It also explores the ways in which ethnic minorities interacted with national and international eugenics discourses to advance their own aims and ambitions, whilst providing a comparative analysis of the emergence and development of eugenics in East-Central Europe more generally.
Complete with a glossary of terms, a list of all eugenic societies and journals from these countries, as well as a comprehensive bibliography, The History of East-Central European Eugenics, 1900-1945 is a pivotal reference work for students, researchers and academics interested in East-Central Europe and the history of science and national identity in the 20th century.
Автор: Sarah Walsh Название: The Religion of Life: Eugenics, Race, and Catholicism in Chile ISBN: 0822946645 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822946649 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 48840.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Examines the interconnections and relationship between Catholicism and eugenics in early-twentieth-century Chile.
