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The Oxford handbook of the history of eugenics

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2010, Oxford University Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction
Eugenics and the modern world / Philippa Levine and Alison Bashford
Part One: Transnational themes in the history of eugenics
The Darwinian context : Evolution and inheritance / Diane B. Paul and James Moore
Anthropology, colonialism, and eugenics / Philippa Levine
Race, science, and eugenics in the twentieth century / Marius Turda
Eugenics and the science of genetics / Nils Roll-Hansen
Fertility control: Eugenics, neo-Malthusianism, and feminism / Susanne Klausen and Alison Bashford
Disability, psychiatry, and eugenics / Mathew Thomson
Eugenics and the state: Policy-making in comparative perspective / Veronique Mottier
Internationalism, cosmopolitanism, and eugenics / Alison Bashford
Gender and sexuality: A global tour and compass / Alexandra Minna Stern
Eugenics and genocide / A. Dirk Moses and Dan Stone
Part Two: National/colonial formations
Eugenics in Britain: The view from the metropole / Lucy Bland and Lesley Hall
12. South Asia's eugenic past / Sarah Hodges
Eugenics in Australia and New Zealand: Laboratories of racial science / Stephen Garton
Eugenics in China and Hong Kong: Nationalism and colonialism, 1890s-1940s / Yuehtsen Juliette Chung
Eugenics in South Africa: Paradoxes in the place of race? / Saul Dubow
Eugenics in colonial Kenya / Chloe Campbell
Eugenics in post-colonial Southeast Asia / Sunil S. Amrith
German eugenics and the wider world: Beyond the racial state / Paul Weindling
Eugenics in France and the colonies / Richard S. Fogarty and Michael A. Osborne
Eugenics in the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies / Hans Pols
The Scandinavian states: Reformed eugenics applied / Mattias Tyden
The first-wave eugenic revolution in southern Europe: Science sans frontiers / Maria Sophia Quine
Eugenics in eastern Europe, 1870s-1945 / Maria Bucur
Eugenics in Russia and the Soviet Union / Nikolai Krementsov
Eugenics in Japan: Sanguinous repair / Jennifer Robertson
Eugenics in interwar Iran / Cyrus Schayegh
Eugenics and the Jews / Raphael Falk
Eugenics policy and practice in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Mexico / Patience A. Schell
The path of eugenics in Brazil: Dilemmas of miscegenation / Gilberto Hochman, Nisia Trindade Lima, and Marcos Chor Maio
Eugenics in the United States / Wendy Kline
Eugenics in Canada: A chequered history, 1850s - 1990s / Carolyn Strange and Jennifer A. Stephen
Epilogue: Where did eugenics go? / Alison Bashford.

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Includes index.

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Oxford, New York

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Dewey Decimal Class
363.9/2
Library of Congress
HQ751 .O94 2010

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p. cm.
Number of pages
586

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Open Library
OL24033546M
ISBN 13
9780195373141
LCCN
2009051142
OCLC/WorldCat
495597195

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