9780674445574

In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity

Daniel J. Kevles

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Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Softcover
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All the more powerful for confronting folly with urbanity and a clear eye.''


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"A revealing study of the tangled history of the eugenics movement and its relation to the science of human genetics...Kevles makes clear the symbiotic relations between the genuine science of genetics and the political programs and prejudices of the eugenicists."

Leon J. Kamin, New York Times Book Review

 

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