Essays in Eugenics

Essays in Eugenics
Author: Francis Galton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2013-07-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9781491220184

Galton was instrumental in the formulation of 'eugenics', which seeks to improve the human stock and prevent the degeneration of genetic potential. He introduced the very word "eugenics" and the phrase "nature versus nature." This book consists of a number of lectures delivered by the author during the early part of the twentieth century. Contents: The Possible Improvement of the Human Breed under Existing Conditions of Law and Sentiment; Eugenics, its Definition, Scope, and Aims; Restrictions in Marriage Studies in National Eugenics; Eugenics as a Factor in Religion; Probability, the Foundation of Eugenics; and Local Associations for Promoting Eugenics.

Eugenics & Politics

Eugenics & Politics
Author: Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller
Publisher:
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1926
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Galton

Galton
Author: Francis Galton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 109
Release: 2011-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781878465450

Reprint of the original epoch-breaking 1909 publication by one of the greatest scholars of modern times. Francis Galton was not only a pioneer of climatology, demography, and statistics, but also the founder of modern eugenic thought. These essays summarize his conclusions as to the importance of heredity and the need for eugenic measures to counteract the dysgenic influences, which were already in his time beginning to affect the more advanced nations of the world.

The Politics of Heredity

The Politics of Heredity
Author: Diane B. Paul
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780791438213

Explores the political forces underlying shifts in thinking about the respective influence of heredity and environment in shaping human behavior, and the feasibility and morality of eugenics.

A Century of Eugenics in America

A Century of Eugenics in America
Author: Paul A. Lombardo
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2011-01-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 0253222699

This volume assesses the history of eugenics in the United States and its status in the age of the Human Genome Project. The essays explore the early support of compulsory sterilization by doctors and legislators.

Essays in Eugenics [Christmas Summary Classics]

Essays in Eugenics [Christmas Summary Classics]
Author: Sir Galton
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2013-12-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781494332204

Christmas Summary Classics This series contains summary of Classic books such as Emma, Arne, Arabian Nights, Pride and prejudice, Tower of London, Wealth of Nations etc. Each book is specially crafted after reading complete book in less than 30 pages. One who wants to get joy of book reading especially in very less time can go for it. About the Book Sir Francis Galton, born at Birmingham, England, in 1822, was a grandson of Dr. Erasmus Darwin. He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1844. Galton travelled in the north of Africa, on the White Nile and in the western portion of South Africa between 1844 and 1850. Like his immortal cousin, Charles Darwin, Sir Francis Galton is a striking instance of a man of great and splendid inheritance, who, also inheriting wealth, devotes it and his powers to the cause of humanity. He published several books on heredity, the first of which was "Hereditary Genius." The next "Inquiries into Human Faculty," which was followed by "Natural Inheritance." The "Essays in Eugenics" include all the most recent work of Sir Francis Galton since his return to the subject of eugenics in 1901. This volume has just been published by the Eugenics Education Society, of which Sir Francis Galton is the honorary president. As epitomised for this work, the "Essays" have been made to include a still later study by the author, which will be included in future editions of the book. The epitome has been prepared by special permission of the Eugenics Education Society, and those responsible hope that it will serve in some measure to neutralise the outrageous, gross, and often wilful misrepresentations of eugenics of which many popular writers are guilty. For more eBooks visit www.kartindo.com

"Blood and Homeland"

Author: Marius Turda
Publisher: Central European University Press
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789637326813

The history of eugenics and racial nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe is a neglected topic of analysis in contemporary scholarship. Moreover, national historiographies in Central and Southeast Europe have either marginalized eugenics and racial nationalism or deemed them incompatible with their respective national traditions. Accordingly, this volume has a two-fold ambition: to excavate the hitherto unknown eugenic movements in Central and Southeast Europe and to explain their relationship with racism, nationalism and anti-Semitism. On the one hand, the historiographic perspective substantiated in this volume connects developments in the history of racial anthropology, genetics and eugenics with political ideologies such as racial nationalism and anti-Semitism; on the other hand, it contests the 'Sonderweg' approach adopted by scholars dealing these phenomena in Central and Southeast Europe by arguing that concerns with eugenics and race were as widely disseminated in these regions as they were in Western Europe and North America. Book jacket.