Shortest History of Eugenics

From "Science" to Atrocity - How a Dangerous Movement Shaped the World, and Why It Persists

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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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.The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-12-10
Mått132 x 198 x 23 mm
Vikt275 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieShortest History Series
Antal sidor304
FörlagThe Experiment LLC
ISBN9781891011887

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Preface: The Good BirthPart 1: Surviving the Unfittest (c.500 BCE to 1898)Chapter 1: Managing FateChapter 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?SourcesAcknowledgmentsIndex