Philippa Levine

Eugenics: A Very Short introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

A concise and gripping account of eugenics from its origins in the twentieth century and beyond.

Produktdetails

• Very Short Introductions
• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 172mm x 111mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 150g
• ISBN-13: 9780199385904
• ISBN-10: 0199385904
• Artikelnr.: 45766601

Autorenporträt

Philippa Levine is the Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities and the Co-Director of the Program in British Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics and she has published extensively on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and British Empire history, as well as on science, sexuality, and medicine.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Chapter 1: The World of Eugenics
Chapter 2: Intelligence
Chapter 3: Reproduction
Chapter 4: Race, Class, and Gender
Chapter 5: Eugenics after 1945
References
Further Reading
Index