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010      2022027417
020    9781324035602 |q(cloth)
020     |z9781324035619 |q(epub)
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040    DLC |beng |erda |cDLC
050 00 HQ751 |b.R87 2023
082 00 363.9/209 |223/eng/20220808
100 1  Rutherford, Adam, |eauthor.
245 10 Control : |bthe dark history and troubling present of eugenics / |cAdam Rutherford.
250    First American edition.
264  1 New York, NY : |bW.W. Norton & Company, |c[2023]
300    xiii, 266 pages ; |c22 cm
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
504    Includes bibliographical references and index.
520    "How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years? Inspired by Darwin's ideas about evolution, the concept of race purification through eugenics arose in Victorian England and quickly spread to America, where it was embraced by presidents, funded by Gilded Age monopolists, and enshrined into racist American laws that became the ideological cornerstone of the Third Reich. Despite this horrific legacy, eugenics looms large today, suffusing our language and culture and echoing uneasily in discussions of modern gene editing techniques. In Control, Adam Rutherford presents "a remarkable combination of intelligence, knowledge, insight and admirable political passion, on a serious moral problem in contemporary society." (Carlo Rovelli). With disarming wit and scientific precision, he traces its intellectual origins and confronts the recurring question of whether eugenics could actually work. Control explains why eugenics remains so tempting to powerful people who wish to improve society through reproductive control, and the scientific impossibility of doing so"-- |cProvided by publisher.
591    Record updated by Marcive brief record update service 24 June 2024
599    Shelved at 78-2-1
650  0 Eugenics |xHistory.
650  0 Eugenics |xMoral and ethical aspects.
852 0   |breceiving |kShelved at 78-2-1