Eugenics, Human Genetics and Human Failings: The Eugenics Society, its sources and its critics in BritainThis scholarly and penetrating study of eugenics is a major contribution to our understanding of the complex relation between science, ideology and class. |
Contents
| 1671 | |
THE AGE OF PEDIGREES THE METHODOLOGY OF EUGENICS 190020 | 1719 |
IDEOLOGY AND METHOD R A FISHER AND RESEARCH IN EUGENICS | 1751 |
THE ATTACK FROM THE LEFT MARXISM AND THE NEW MATHEMATICAL | 1793 |
HUMAN GENETICS AND THE EUGENICS PROBLEMATIC | 1834 |
EPILOGUE AND CONCLUSION | 1883 |
Notes | 1893 |
Index | 1913 |
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Eugenics, Human Genetics, and Human Failings: The Eugenics Society, Its ... Pauline Margaret Hodgson Mazumdar No preview available - 1992 |
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