Erik Peterson

The Shortest History of Eugenics

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

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A harrowing history of a grim chapter in politics and science, in which groups of influential thinkers shaped global policy with the aim of determining who had the right to have childrenâ and who was worthy of life. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read.

Produktdetails

• The Shortest History Series
• Verlag: The Experiment LLC
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 910188
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 131mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9781891011887
• ISBN-10: 189101188X
• Artikelnr.: 69990475

Autorenporträt

Erik L. Peterson, PhD, is Associate Provost and Associate Professor of the History of Science & Medicine at The University of Alabama. He publishes and teaches about the historical relationship between race and science in the United States and abroad.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: The Good Birth
Part 1:Surviving the Unfittest (c.500 BCE to 1898)
Chapter 1: Managing Fate
Chapter 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?
Sources
Acknowledgments
Index