In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity by Daniel J. Kevles

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

Daniel J. Kevles

448 pages first pub 1985 (view editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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Daniel Kevles traces the study and practice of eugenics--the science of "improving" the human species by exploiting theories of heredity--from its inception in the late nineteenth century to its most recent manifestation within the field of geneti...

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