{"product_id":"the-oxford-handbook-of-the-history-of-eugenics-paperback","title":"The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlison Bashford\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003ePhilippa Levine\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in a remarkable transnational phenomenon. Eugenics informed social and scientific policy across the political spectrum, from liberal welfare measures in emerging social-democratic states to feminist ambitions for birth control, from public health campaigns to totalitarian dreams of the \"perfectibility of man.\" This book dispels for uninitiated readers the automatic and apparently exclusive link between eugenics and the Holocaust. It is the first world history of eugenics and an indispensable core text for both teaching and research. Eugenics has accumulated generations of interest as experts attempted to connect biology, human capacity, and policy. In the past and the present, eugenics speaks to questions of race, class, gender and sex, evolution, governance, nationalism, disability, and the social implications of science. In the current climate, in which the human genome project, \u003cbr\u003estem cell research, and new reproductive technologies have proven so controversial, the history of eugenics has much to teach us about the relationship between scientific research, technology, and human ethical decision-making.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlison Bashford \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor of Modern History at the University of Sydney. She has published widely on the modern history of science and medicine, including \u003cem\u003ePurity and Pollution\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eImperial Hygiene\u003c\/em\u003e, and has co-edited \u003cem\u003eContagion\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eIsolation\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eMedicine at the Border.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePhilippa Levine\u003c\/strong\u003e is the Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin. Her books include \u003cem\u003eProstitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe British Empire, Sunrise to Sunset\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 608\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.6 x 9.7 x 6.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45033436119179,"sku":"9780199945054","price":150.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/2579\/7259\/files\/OTZEUEx4UUhDT1BuUmp1WmpzTXhJdz09.webp?v=1766825718","url":"https:\/\/thetaletrade.com\/products\/the-oxford-handbook-of-the-history-of-eugenics-paperback","provider":"The Tale Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}