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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics
Oxford University Press, USA 2010; US$ 49.99Eugenic 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... more...
Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America
Indiana University Press 2009; US$ 23.75Does the black struggle for civil rights make common cause with the movement to foster queer community, protest anti-queer violence or discrimination, and demand respect for the rights and sensibilities of queer people? Confronting this emotionally charged question, Ladelle McWhorter reveals how a carefully ... more...
Liberal Eugenics
Wiley 2008; US$ 113.95In this provocative book, philosopher Nicholas Agar defends the idea that parents should be allowed to enhance their children’s characteristics. Gets away from fears of a Huxleyan ‘Brave New World’ or a return to the fascist eugenics of the past Written from a philosophically and scientifically informed point of view Considers real... more...
The Kaiser-wilhelm-institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics, 1927-1945
Springer 2008; US$ 179.99When the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics opened its doors in 1927, it could rely on wide political approval, ranging from the Social Democrats over the Catholic Centre to the far rightwing of the party spectrum. In 1933 the institute and its founding director Eugen Fischer came under pressure to adjust, which... more...
Eugenics and the Nature-Nurture Debate in the Twentieth Century
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 30.00Gillette shows that the sciences of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology were undergoing rapid development in the early Twentieth century. However, many of the early researchers in these sciences were also eugenicists. With the rise of behaviourism and the reaction against eugenics in the 1930s, any scientific claims that behaviour might be influenced... more...
From Nurturing the Nation to Purifying the Volk
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 26.00Examines family policy in Weimar (1919-1932) and Nazi Germany (1933-1945). more...
Defiant Birth
Spinifex Press 2006; US$ 16.95Daring women?those who were told not to have their babies due to perceived disabilities in themselves or their unborn children?tell their stories in this controversial book that looks critically at medical eugenics as a contemporary form of social engineering. Believing that all life is valuable and that some are not more worthy of it than others,... more...
Eugenic Nation
University of California Press 2005; US$ 29.95Many people assume that eugenics all but disappeared with the fall of Nazism, but as this sweeping history demonstrates, the idea of better breeding had a wide and surprising reach in the United States throughout the twentieth century. With an original emphasis on the American West, Eugenic Nation brings to light many little-known facts?for example,... more...
Parenting From the Inside Out
Penguin Group US 2003; US$ 14.95How many parents have found themselves thinking: I can't believe I just said to my child the very thing my parents used to say to me! Am I just destined to repeat the mistakes of my parents? In Parenting from the Inside Out , child psychiatrist Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., and early childhood expert Mary Hartzell, M.Ed., explore the extent to which our... more...
American Eugenics
University of Minnesota Press 2003; US$ 60.00The Nazis may have given eugenics its negative connotations, but the practice?and the ?science? that supports it?is still disturbingly alive in America. Tracing the historical roots and persistence of eugenics in the United States, Nancy Ordover explores the political and cultural climate that has endowed these campaigns with mass appeal and scientific... more...









