عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
HQ751 .C27 2001
HQ751
.
C27
2001
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
0879695870
(Number (ISBN
0879696583
(Number (ISBN
9780879695873
(Number (ISBN
9780879696580
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
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TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
The unfit :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
a history of a bad idea /
First Statement of Responsibility
Elof Axel Carlson
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xiv, 451 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-426) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Ch. 1. Who are the unfit? -- Ch. 2. The unfit in Biblical times -- Ch. 3. Self-pollution and declining health -- Ch. 4. Degeneracy theory: identifying the innately depraved and the victims of vicious upbringing -- Ch. 5. Dangerous classes and social degeneracy -- Ch. 6. Poor laws and the descent to degeneracy -- Ch. 7. The perfectibility of man confronts vice and misery -- Ch. 8. Evolutionary ethics before darwin -- Ch. 9. Hereditary units and the pessimism of the germ plasm -- Ch. 10. The Jukes and the tribe of Ishmael -- Ch. 11. A minor prophet of democracy -- Ch. 12. Isolating the unfit through compulsory sterilization -- Ch. 13. The emergence of two wings of the eugenics movement -- Ch. 14. Europe's undesirables replace the domestic unfit -- Ch. 15. Eugenics becomes an international movement -- Ch. 16. Racism and human inequality -- Ch. 17. Jews as people, race, culture, religion, and victims -- Ch. 18. The smoke of Auschwitz -- Ch. 19. The abandonment of eugenics by genetics -- Ch. 20. The future of eugenics -- Ch. 21. Dealing with life's imperfections
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Carlson's history of degeneracy theory, the idea that certain people are biologically disposed to become socially unfit or "degenerate," examines the birth of both good and bad eugenics movements. While good eugenics movements focus on people whose needs may require intense social attention and expensive social investments, bad eugenics movements call for isolation if not eradication and genocide. He brings the history into the present day, where the potential misapplication of DNA science and social attitudes toward the human genome could lead to similar movements
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Unfit.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Eugenics-- History
Eugenics-- history
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
363
.
9/2/09
Edition
21
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
HQ751
Book number
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C27
2001
OTHER CLASS NUMBERS
Class number
2006
B-661
Class number
HQ
751
Book Number
C284u
2002
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Carlson, Elof Axel
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20160712070244.0
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
Y
