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The Shortest History of Eugenics
From "Science" to Atrocity - How a Dangerous Movement Shaped the World, and Why It Persists
Taschenbuch von Erik Peterson
Sprache: Englisch

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For the last two centuries, groups of influential men have, in the professed interest of fiscal responsibility, crime reduction, and outright racism, attempted to control who was allowed to bear children. Their efforts, "eugenics," characterize a movement that over the last century swept across the world-from the US to Brazil, Japan, India, Australia, and beyond-in the form of marriage restrictions, asylum detention, and sterilization campaigns affected millions. German physicians and scientists adopted and then heightened these eugenics practices beginning in 1939, starving or executing those they deemed "life unworthy of life."

But well after the liberation of Nazi deathcamps, health care workers and even the US government pursued policies worldwide with the express purpose of limiting the reproduction of poor non-whites. The Shortest History of Eugenics takes us back to the founding principles of the movement, revealing how an idea that began in cattle breeding took such an insidious turn-and how it lingers in rhetoric and policy today.

For the last two centuries, groups of influential men have, in the professed interest of fiscal responsibility, crime reduction, and outright racism, attempted to control who was allowed to bear children. Their efforts, "eugenics," characterize a movement that over the last century swept across the world-from the US to Brazil, Japan, India, Australia, and beyond-in the form of marriage restrictions, asylum detention, and sterilization campaigns affected millions. German physicians and scientists adopted and then heightened these eugenics practices beginning in 1939, starving or executing those they deemed "life unworthy of life."

But well after the liberation of Nazi deathcamps, health care workers and even the US government pursued policies worldwide with the express purpose of limiting the reproduction of poor non-whites. The Shortest History of Eugenics takes us back to the founding principles of the movement, revealing how an idea that began in cattle breeding took such an insidious turn-and how it lingers in rhetoric and policy today.

Über den Autor

Erik L. Peterson, PhD, is Associate Provost and Associate Professor of the History of Science & Medicine at The University of Alabama. He publishes and teaches about the historical relationship between race and science in the United States and abroad.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: The Good Birth

Part 1: Surviving the Unfittest (c.500 BCE to 1898)

Chapter 1: Managing Fate

Chapter 2: Degenerates

Chapter 3: Natural Born Criminals

Chapter 4: From Sir Francis Galton to Connecticut

Part 2: Making Eugenics a Science (1899-1927)

Chapter 5: The Indiana Plan

Chapter 6: The American Eugenics Triangle

Chapter 7: Studying the Worst of Us

Chapter 8: Legal Scaffolding for Eugenics

Part 3: Cleaning the Race (1919-1945)

Chapter 9: Drowning "the Great Race" Under a "Rising Tide of Color"

Chapter 10: A Global Eugenics Network

Chapter 11: Making America White Again

Chapter 12: Nazi Ties

Chapter 13: To Murder Six Million

Part 4: Population Control (1945-1980)

Chapter 14: A Surplus Colonial Population

Chapter 15: The Population Control Industrial Complex

Chapter 16: The Population Bomb Bomb

Chapter 17: Emergencies

Part 5: Eugenics is Dead; Long Live Eugenics (1980 to today)

Chapter 18: Resistance, Weak and Strong

Chapter 19: From Population Control to Poverty Control

Chapter 20: Sterilizing Criminals Again

Chapter 21: Newgenics?

Sources

Acknowledgments

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Importe, Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: The Shortest History Series
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781891011887
ISBN-10: 189101188X
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 910188
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Peterson, Erik
Hersteller: Norton & Company
The Experiment
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Abbildungen: 77 B&W photographs and illustrations
Maße: 196 x 131 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Erik Peterson
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.12.2024
Gewicht: 0,272 kg
Artikel-ID: 130736279
Über den Autor

Erik L. Peterson, PhD, is Associate Provost and Associate Professor of the History of Science & Medicine at The University of Alabama. He publishes and teaches about the historical relationship between race and science in the United States and abroad.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: The Good Birth

Part 1: Surviving the Unfittest (c.500 BCE to 1898)

Chapter 1: Managing Fate

Chapter 2: Degenerates

Chapter 3: Natural Born Criminals

Chapter 4: From Sir Francis Galton to Connecticut

Part 2: Making Eugenics a Science (1899-1927)

Chapter 5: The Indiana Plan

Chapter 6: The American Eugenics Triangle

Chapter 7: Studying the Worst of Us

Chapter 8: Legal Scaffolding for Eugenics

Part 3: Cleaning the Race (1919-1945)

Chapter 9: Drowning "the Great Race" Under a "Rising Tide of Color"

Chapter 10: A Global Eugenics Network

Chapter 11: Making America White Again

Chapter 12: Nazi Ties

Chapter 13: To Murder Six Million

Part 4: Population Control (1945-1980)

Chapter 14: A Surplus Colonial Population

Chapter 15: The Population Control Industrial Complex

Chapter 16: The Population Bomb Bomb

Chapter 17: Emergencies

Part 5: Eugenics is Dead; Long Live Eugenics (1980 to today)

Chapter 18: Resistance, Weak and Strong

Chapter 19: From Population Control to Poverty Control

Chapter 20: Sterilizing Criminals Again

Chapter 21: Newgenics?

Sources

Acknowledgments

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Importe, Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: The Shortest History Series
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781891011887
ISBN-10: 189101188X
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 910188
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Peterson, Erik
Hersteller: Norton & Company
The Experiment
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Abbildungen: 77 B&W photographs and illustrations
Maße: 196 x 131 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Erik Peterson
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.12.2024
Gewicht: 0,272 kg
Artikel-ID: 130736279
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