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Eugenic design : streamlining America in the 1930s / Christina Cogdell.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: HQ755.5.U5 C64 2004

Overview

Format: Book
Author/Creator: Cogdell, Christina.
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2004
Locale: United States
Contents: Controlling evolution
Products or bodies? : streamline design and eugenics as applied biology
Progenitors of the future : popularizing streamlining and eugenics during the 1930s
"Flow is the word" : biological efficiency and streamline design
Race hygiene, product hygiene : curing disease through sterilization
Future perfect? : the elusive "ideal type"
Pseudoscience? Pseudostyle?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-312) and index.

Controlling evolution -- Products or bodies? : streamline design and eugenics as applied biology -- Progenitors of the future : popularizing streamlining and eugenics during the 1930s -- "Flow is the word" : biological efficiency and streamline design -- Race hygiene, product hygiene : curing disease through sterilization -- Future perfect? : the elusive "ideal type" -- Pseudoscience? Pseudostyle?

Physical Details

Language: English
External Link: Table of contents
ISBN: 0812238249
Physical Description: xvii, 328 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects: Eugenics--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century. Design--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century. Aerodynamics--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century. Industrial design--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century. Genetics--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century. United States--Civilization--1918-1945. United States--Race relations. Racism--United States--History--20th century. United States--Social conditions--1933-1945.

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